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...this adulterated version that became widely known; the landmark Houston production rightly restored both the cuts and the recitative, or sung dialogue, that Gershwin originally wrote. The latest incarnation, which opened last week in New York City's cavernous Radio City Music Hall, is an even grander version of the Houston Grand Opera staging: almost uncut, spectacularly designed and reasonably well sung by a large, rotating cast of principals...
...Washington, Pentagon officials said that Big Pine was merely a continuation of U.S.-Honduran military exercises that have taken place annually since 1965. True enough, but the scale of this year's effort was vastly grander than that of war games of the past. Last year only 30 U.S. military men turned up for the Honduran exercises. This year 1,600 Americans provided logistic and communications support in pitting 4,000 Honduran troops against an imaginary invading "Red army" from a neighboring, equally imaginary country called Corinth...
...U.S.S.R. as a spokesman for Khrushchev's foreign policy. In 1964 he was a member of the conspiracy against his former mentor that forced Khrushchev into retirement. Brezhnev's reward: the high-ranking post of First Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1966 Brezhnev assumed the grander title of General Secretary that had been adopted by Stalin...
...subsequent to the meeting with Epps. Alliance members began to see the event on a grander scale. Michael T. Anderson '83, who almost single handedly organized the rally, managed to induce several local bands to appear. It was not until the weekend prior to the demonstration that University officials--thanks to a public service announcement on a Boston radio station--found our there would music. Moreover, there was concern that one of the bands. Session of Barms, would attract a significant non-Harvard following...
...wait for Porky's 2, the requisite Nude Dancing at a Wild Party scene. This devious comic contraption is set in motion by a husband (Bartel) and wife (Mary Woronov) so decent and affectionate that they could star in their own sitcom. They have dreams no grander than to open a gourmet restaurant called Chez Bland-and the willingness to kill a gaggle of Los Angeles swingers in order to finance their scheme...