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...sang of his love for the chaste Elsa. At the climax of Tristan und Isolde, one bejeweled lady was so overcome by the intoxicating music that she pitched backward into the laps of the unflappable listeners behind her. Richard Wagner, who caused all the excitement, rested peacefully in his grave behind his villa Wahnfried, buried, in the phrase of one astonished British tourist, "in the backyard, sir, like a dog." Bayreuth has seen everything...
...testify last October in a trial arising from the theft of $100,000 worth of integrated electronic circuits in Santa Clara, Calif. The defendant was ultimately convicted, but without Roberts' help. One month before the trial, he was murdered execution-style and dumped in a shallow grave in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains...
Offshore Oil Leasing. Watt is opening up to oil companies nearly all 1 billion acres of U.S. coastal waters, 25 times that offered since the program began in 1954. Critics say that the risks of oil spills and other environmental damage will be grave and that the massive enterprise is beyond the oil industry's technical and financial means...
...week-old invasion of Lebanon had wrought momentous changes in the complex Middle East equation, and their repercussions would be felt for years to come. Every major actor in the drama has been deeply affected. For the U.S., the crisis provoked by its headstrong Israeli ally has presented grave risks but also a challenging opportunity to play a key role in forging a comprehensive Middle East peace...
...Stein and George Plimpton from interviews with some 250 people who crossed paths or swords with the poor little rich girl. An awful fascination obtains to the book's elegant gossip. See Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary and hitman of the double-domed Right, dance wickedly on the grave of one of Edie's ancestors. Recall the night that Rock Star Jim Morrison paid sexual obeisance to Jimi Hendrix on the stage of Steve Paul's nightclub, the Scene. Watch Warhol shrug as a woman invades his Factory, takes out a pistol and shoots a hole through...