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...hollers into a backstage microphone for about 30 seconds. This is just to let everyone know that he is really dying. And though it is a relief to see Byrd go in the second scene, the thrill is short-lived. He unfortunately returns in the second act as a ghost...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Direction and Complexity Mar Lowell House Opera 'Lulu' | 4/27/1990 | See Source »

...main cast is admirably supported by an energetic chorus of professional bridesmaids and disgruntled ghosts. Particular praise goes to David Chung playing the ghost of the bishop. He has a wonderful ability to maintain his mannequin stillness in the show...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: 'The Witch's Curse' Is Anything But Evil | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

Blessings on British writers! They are keeping the comic novel alive and well with very little help from other quarters. Perhaps it is the malign ghost of Evelyn Waugh that tweaks them into action, but A.N. Wilson's social satires and David Lodge's academic lampoons have a vigor and recklessness that are often in short supply in more serious work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Critics Who Condescend | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...will bear this pressure. It is a question of who has sovereignty over this land. Does it belong to the people of Lithuania or to some other state?" As for the decree ordering the surrender of firearms, Landsbergis replied, "It can be enforced only through brutal, armed force . . . The ghost of Stalinism is walking in the Kremlin, and the shadow of it lies far to the west" -- over Lithuania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union War of Nerves | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

Even in the Soviet Union, where new estimates say 26 million died in World War II, surveys indicate that a majority does not worry about a single Germany. Nevertheless, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has warned of "sinister shadows of the past . . . a possible growth of militarism . . . the ghost of political revenge." The Soviet government is profoundly ambivalent about a unification it would much rather delay if not prevent altogether. In Poland, a third of which is made up of former German territory, opinion polls indicate that 64% are against unification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anything to Fear? | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

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