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...other singer could bring this music so close to distinction. Among the other principals, Mezzo Huguette Tourangeau, as the Empress' sister, sang with impeccable French style. The sets by Beni Montresor consist mostly of scrims and drops on which light shows swirl. To fashion his opulent costumes, the garment district must have emptied its bins of beads...
...inclination is to resist the imagination when it operates in this way," he writes. "Yet I, too, feel that the light of Jerusalem has purifying pow ers and filters the blood and the thoughts. I don't forbid myself the reflection that light may be the outer garment...
Allen, 53, a stout, weathered native of Anderson, S.C., knows what he is talking about. In 15 years as an organizer, first for the Textile Workers Union of America, now for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, he has been beaten up by goon squads, harassed by police and blacklisted by scores of employers. More than once he has stared down the muzzle of a gun. He has felt the force of community as well as employer hostility. Says he: "I've been in campaigns where everyone's against me -the newspapers, the bankers, the politicians...
...insiders all had their seats, and sat smugly in their hotels in the garment district, all around the Garden. The fat man from Chicago crowed to his cronies, "I couldn't get tickets four years ago, and look what happened. I tell you, they need us fans...
Emotional Reactions. His style is certainly fresh. He declines Secret Service protection, rides in a rented van and brusquely turns down little gifts, even a necktie painted with a presidential seal that was proffered by an executive of a garment factory. He evokes an emotional, visceral reaction from many voters. At a Western Electric plant outside Baltimore, he created pandemonium: men pressed forward to shake his hand, women squealed and virtually swooned. For many women his appeal was frankly sexual. Gushed one: "He's got the greatest eyebrows I've ever seen." Comparisons with the Kennedy brothers...