Word: hun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They don't care if you're Attila the Hun as long as you do what they want...
...second occurs at the close of the first act. An old man appears to Attila in a dream, barring the Hun's way to Rome. "You are appointed as scourge only against mankind," he tells him, in tones that forecast the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos. "This is the territory of the gods." When Attila encounters the man-historically, Pope Leo I-in the flesh, he hears the same words, set to the same melody, which Verdi has also used in that scene to raise the curtain on Attila's uneasy slumber. The act ends with a majestic...
Reagan settles into the White House with the nation still divided in its opinion of hun. Fewer than half of the American people now express full confidence and trust in the 40th President, while nearly as many say they have doubts and reservations about him. These are the findings of a national opinion survey conducted for TIME by the research firm Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc. shortly before Reagan's Inauguration...
...Theater De Lys. "One-man show" is scarcely precise, for Peterson plays 16 characters in addition to Bishop. He is immeasurably aided by John Gray's work at the piano; music underscores the evening. Early on, the songs have bravado: "We were off to fight the Hun . . ./ And it looked like lots of fun," but they end somberly: "We were daring young men with hearts of gold/ And most of us never...