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...Then she headed for Italy, where next week she will sing the same role at La Scala. When not in the opera house, she is in the recording studios. Two new albums, French Opera Arias (Columbia) and Frederica von Stade Sings Mozart-Rossini Opera Arias (Philips), display what the fuss is about -a lustrous amber mezzo-soprano voice with an unusually high, sweet crystalline top and seemingly effortless agility...
...really start to concentrate on anything else until I get things orderly," Spacek confesses, and this kind of dedicated fuss-budgetry gives her a strong center of gravity whenever celebrity threatens to throw her off balance. Says she: "The main thing is I don't want to lose myself. If I get hit by a car, I want to go out knowing I returned my neighbor's cake...
...would be difficult to prove, however, that Harvard handled the two cases differently because Brown-Beasley is white and Fredie is black. A more likely scenario is that Brown-Beasley could be fired with little fuss, his oddities and outspokenness having weakened his standing within the administration. The Fredie case, on the other hand, was potentially explosive: there were charges that Harvard higher-ups were involved in the alleged prostitution operation and students had definitely been linked to the case. Indeed the delay in the publicizing of the conviction suggests the care with which Harvard and the court authorities handled...
Inside the exhibition, one wonders what all the fuss has been about. Wyeth is clearly what used to be called a petit-maitre. He has staked out a small and somewhat predictable area of visual sensation, a narrow range of images, ideas and colors, and worked it so thoroughly as to exclude all followers. Some memorable works have resulted. The close and beautifully exact tonal painting of a landscape like Brown Swiss (1957)-"I wanted it to be almost like the tawny brown pelt of a Brown Swiss bull," he tells Met Director Thomas Hoving in the catalogue text...
Election Commissioner George Goverman said yesterday a Graham campaign worker had told the commission in August that the Ames Street MIT dormitories belonged in district four. Goverman said there would have been less "fuss" about the notification had the commission acted earlier...