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Best of all, though, vocally and comedically, was John Bernard as Alfredo, a character whose very name suggests the world of opera he was to lambaste. Bernard seemed for all the world to be reprising Kevin Kline's role in A Fish Called Wanda, only with a better grasp of Italian. His onstage, offstage, and backstage impromptu arias paid tribute to "La Traviata," "Tosca," "Turandot," "L'Elisir d'Amore," "Der Rosenkavalier, "Aida," and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." As Rosalinda's lover, his goodbye kiss at the end of act one, when he was being...
Alwaleed demonstrated his grasp of American business tactics when he launched the first successful hostile takeover of a bank in Saudi Arabia, winning the United Saudi Commercial Bank. Alwaleed believes the takeover made his name in Saudi Arabia while simultaneously giving him a vantage point for branching out into other businesses...
...global one. "No country or society is safe from this new challenge to basic human security," insisted U.N. General Assembly President Hennadiy Udovenko. Especially not when half of those infected around the world are under the age of 25. As long as a cure continues to be beyond our grasp, World AIDS Day serves as a warning to the young - no-one's safe...
...summarize, just so that everyone is on the same level of understanding: Real guys talk dirty, drive badly, are physically violent and drive cool, if slightly dangerous, vehicles. At this point, I'm beginning to get a grasp of this "guy" business...
...recently got the transcripts of the Kennedy tapes from the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, and there Kennedy is the serene leader who guides the nation away from nuclear conflict. He is the man with the best grasp of how wars arise from miscalculation and weakness, the man who turns aside his bellicose warriors. Now we have Seymour Hersh and his book The Dark Side of Camelot, an exhausting catalog of Kennedy's alleged sexual indulgences, cover-ups and unlicensed use of family wealth to buy his office. But there has been--and there is in the Hersh account--something...