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...last week Bridget Rose Dugdale, 33-year-old daughter of a British insurance tycoon, was in jail-again. The blonde, Oxford-educated million-heiress was accused of masterminding and directing the largest art theft in recent history: last month's looting of 19 masterpieces, including paintings by Goya and Gainsborough, from the Irish manor home of Mining Heir Sir Alfred Beit.* The art works, valued at $20 million, were recovered intact two weeks ago in a remote cottage in County Cork, on the Irish coast, where police found both the paintings and Rose Dugdale. She had been sought...
...Short Eyes, at Joseph Papp's New York Public Theater. A year ago, most of them were inmates in New York prisons. Kenny Steward, 32, ex-drug addict, spent 16 years in and out of jail cells as he progressed from parking-meter pilfering to armed robbery. Tito Goya, 22, The Family's composer, scaled his way through prison and music simultaneously. At 17 in Comstock, he learned piano and guitar; in two years at Auburn, he added bass and theory, and at Sing Sing, trumpet. Miguel Piñero, 27, is playwright-in-residence and author...
NASRUDIN GALLERY, Newbury St., Goya's Disasters of War, through...
NASRUDIN GALLERY, Newbury St., Goya's Disasters of War, through...
...major innovation was Ustinov's abandonment of the traditional setting of the opera-the brocaded and balconied court life of old Seville-in favor of a Goyaesque countryside vision of 18th century Spain. "Like Goya," said Ustinov, "Mozart had a fine sense of the intense dark and light sides of life, often imprisoned so tightly together that it is frightening to ask too many questions. The people in Don Giovanni could have been the people staring at you from the depths of Goya's portraits." As for the don himself, said Ustinov, he is "not really my kind...