Word: ils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expects perfection in an art as composite as opera, and the Met presents hits and flops about as frequently as any major company. It is in the middle ground of old favorites, like Il Trovatore and Carmen, the staple of any opera house, that the Met has abandoned its audience. Each year it revives Aida with mediocre singers. Undoubtedly the management calculates that these are operas which will fill seats no matter how meager the cast, and so far box office figures bear them out. Thus the present situation: except for new productions, only operas which are modern; unpopular...
...Rosella Asti, daughter of Italy's Ambassador to Washington. While the whole civilized world weeps and prays, the intricately plotted caper goes as smoothly as a sacrament-until the Red Brigades horn in on the action and the $4 million ransom money. The hero in the end is il Papa, a man of great energy, guile and charity. When it is not delivering adrenal suspense, Duane's book can double as a tourist's guide to offbeat Roma...
Mick Jones, who writes most of the Clash repertoire with Strummer, hopes that their music can be "an il lumination." Such an ambition might seem unsuitably lofty but for the fact that the group comes from a tradition that uses music not only as an outlet but as a force, an effective instrument of social change. "The record company's making out we're politicians, and that's a load of stuff," sneers Strummer, but Jones may cut a little closer when he recalls the title of his school song, Servants of the State...
...shows that nothing is as it seems. The shopkeepers are a group of radical anarchists, Jack is not a sex-crazed mutilator but a hired killer, and the master plotters are part of a conspiracy to expunge all those who know the identity of Queen Victoria's il legitimate grandchild...
...index of a new Chinese sensitivity to foreign opinion that in November the People's Daily in Peking ran a full page of five articles outlining human rights criticisms and urging that new civ il and criminal codes be adopted to protect those rights. "In some places," said the People's Daily, "the legal rights and interests of citizens are badly infringed. Rations are cut. Private property is tak en away, rural markets are closed down, and legal economic activities are not guaranteed. All of these things can still happen...