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Last week, in a giant step, the V.O.A. abandoned the standard repertory and embraced 20th century music by presenting the American premiere of Mary, Queen of Scots, a grand opera by Scottish Composer Thea Musgrave, 49. The choice was audacious. Mary calls for 13 principals and a 32-member chorus, a taxing assignment for V.O.A.'s limited resources and tiny (28 ft. deep) stage. V.O.A. gambled and won-to prolonged applause...
...been aired in the press and looked into by a Senate committee, is being directed by a trio of lawyers within the Justice Department, named by Attorney General Griffin Bell last November. The lawyers and their aides have presented some evidence in the glacially slow-moving investigation to a grand jury in Atlanta, since that is the area in which any law violation would have occurred...
...biggest congressional recipients of Park's payoffs are already in legal trouble. Former Louisiana Democratic Representative Otto Passman, who Park claims took a grand total of $250,000 in cash, was indicted last week for bribery and conspiracy. Former California Democratic Representative Richard Hanna, who allegedly received $200,000, has already pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Other former Democratic Congressmen on the list include New Jersey's Cornelius Gallagher, who supposedly accepted about $40,000, and Louisiana's Edwin Edwards, now Governor, who has admitted to receiving $20,000. Other payments made by Park were smaller...
...dreamer, meant everything he painted to have the instructive force of revelation. Each drawing and poem-whether small and limpid, like the Songs of Innocence or his woodcut illustrations to Thornton's Virgil, or epically obscure, like the cantos of The Four Zoas or the grand designs of Jerusalem-was imagined as part of a metaphysical system, a means of explaining the history and nature of the world in terms of the fall and redemption...
...Begelman's return, Los Angeles District Attorney John Van de Kamp issued a four-count felony complaint, charging the executive with grand theft of $40,000 and with forging the names of Director Martin Ritt, Publicist Pierre Groleau and Actor Cliff Robertson on checks. So Begelman is set to surrender this week to Burbank police, and will shortly afterward be arraigned. If convicted, he could be sentenced to one to ten years in state prison on the grand-theft charge and one to 14 years on each of the three forgery counts. One serious problem...