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Renard, the first and lighter of the two showcases the skills of some talented dancers and displays the work of choreographer Decborah Wolf. Wolf's challenge is to project convincing illusions of a fox a rooster a cat and a goat through the bodies costumed only abstractly of four human dancers...
...such tragedy took place in the medium-size farming community of Dasht-e-Rivat (pop. 1,800 in the past), many of whose inhabitants fled on the third day of bombing in April 1982. Scrambling up a goat path into the 14,000-ft. mountains along the southern edge of the Hindu Kush, the fugitives took nothing with them but thin clothing, a little bread and some dried mulberry flour. For 40 days they hid behind boulders and in mountain caves. Each night it snowed; each day they saw Soviet planes bomb and strafe the valley below. The fatalities included...
Perhaps the most surprising demonstration was the march by more than 10,000 shopkeepers and other small businessmen a fortnight ago to protest government price controls and other austerity restrictions. Accompanied by a goat on a leash, symbolizing the marchers' refusal to be scapegoats for the squeeze, the middle-aged multitude was tear-gassed by the police at the Pont d'Alma in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. Said Jean Brunei, vice president of the 1.5 million-member Small and Medium Business Confederation: "We are demanding the freedom to manage our own businesses as we choose." Farmers...
...like many French chefs who own and cook in restaurants in the U.S., Julia Child has been deeply impressed by the variety and ever increasing excellence of American raw materials, many of which, like goat cheese, wild mushrooms and caviar, have become generally available only in recent years. "We no longer have to kneel down and bow to foreigners," she insists. "We can be proud of what we have here...
...beggar's unconquerable love for Bess, a lady of easy virtue. So strong is Porgy's passion that he kills his rival, Crown, and when Bess is whisked off to New York by the smooth-talking Sportin' Life, Porgy quixotically sets out after her in his goat cart. Porgy is a relic of the first important period in American opera, the '30s-a decade that also saw Louis Gruenberg's The Emperor Jones and Howard Hanson's Merry Mount. Other composers who have tried their hand at native grand opera include William Schuman, Aaron...