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...that day's highlight will be Frank Sinatra's Inauguration eve gala at the Capital Centre in Maryland. Some 19,000 have been invited to pay from $50 to $10,000 (for a ten-seat box) to see OF Blue Eyes put on a show that will include Johnny Carson, Debby Boone, Donny Osmond, Ethel Mer man, Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston...
...October when Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi urged Muslims not to make their annual pilgrimage to Mecca because he claimed that the shrine had been desecrated by U.S. radar surveillance planes flying overhead. And after the outbreak of the war between Iran and Iraq, the cartel had to cancel a gala meeting in Baghdad in November that was to have celebrated the group's 20th anniversary...
...chefs, has written more than a cookbook: his 517-page tome is both an essay on the culinary philosophy of his country and an explanation of the cultural background of its foods. Along the way, he shows in words and excellent artwork the basic repertory, from sushi to a gala banquet consisting of as many as 30 small portions...
...fascist or a Communist." When pressed about a Catalan government investigation into his affairs, he insisted, "I like to pay taxes." Dali then reiterated a previously announced intention to begin a still vague 22-mile-long project in Rumania and revealed another plan: to remarry his willful wife Gala, 87, as an "endorsement" of his love for her. "She is everything to me," insisted the great surrealist. "The only way to make love is as a sacrament...
...into a lavish party but into a $1 million fund raiser for the New York City Opera, of which she is now general director. The jubilee was at the New York State Theater, in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, before an S.R.O. audience of 2,700. Tickets to the gala benefit went for as much as $1,000. For her last role Sills chose Rosalinda in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, the part in which she had made her New York City Opera debut exactly 25 years ago. This night, though, Strauss moved over for Sills. Only the second...