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...long-awaited first performance after taking over as director. Then, 35 minutes into Tannhauser, the lead tenor, East Germany's Reiner Goldberg, dropped his harp and mumbled, "My voice-I can't go on." He then disappeared into the wings, leaving a stunned Venus alone in her grotto...
...what the kids have come to see. With theater-rattling thumps, our dragon stalks his turf, and like a B-52 with scales, swoops over hapless victims, booming displeasure with the human race. Great care has been taken to construct a plausible lair for the villain, a spooky underground grotto containing an Olympic-sized pool complete with burning water and oozing ceiling. The little baby dragons, who display a revolting appetite for freshly killed princess and give Galen some initial resistance, may provoke more than a few people to go home and flush their salamanders and iguanas down the toilet...
...started it all on his kitchen table back in 1953. He rules his empire and maintains his image as a protean ladies' man from a fieldstone fortress in Los Angeles. It is equipped with battlements in the backyard, outdoor Jacuzzi baths built into a stone grotto and sprawling lawns where flamingos and pet peacocks roam. Mansion West, as the place is called to distinguish it from Hefner's 54-room Chicago playpen now on the block for $2.5 million, cost the company $3 million last year to operate. Hefner, however, pays an annual rent of only...
...Pope was buried in the grotto of St. Peter's Basilica, the resting place of 146 other popes...
...approaching call of spring, however, beckons every golfer from his secret grotto. Yesterday, Harvard golfer Spence Fitzgibbons and I furtively crept out way across the Eliot House courtyard and teed up a Titleist before the banks of the Charles. I performed the functions of Spence's caddy, looking somewhat like a hod carrier for a bricklayer. With only a chorus of quizzical birds watching, Spence unsheathed a nine-iron from his bag and sent the first shot of spring skittering across the Charles. To paraphrase Jos Sedley in Vanity Fair: "Gad, there we were, singing away like--a robin...