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Verdi: II Trovatore (Soprano Joan Sutherland, Mezzo Marilyn Home, Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, Baritone Ingvar Wixell, National Philharmonic Orchestra, London Opera Chorus, Richard Bonynge conductor, London; 3 LPs). Having come only recently to the roles of Leonora and Manrico, Sutherland and Pavarotti will undoubtedly have additional things to say about them in the future. For now, it can be said that this is a bella voce album of the first order. Devotees of the Leontyne Price-Placido Domingo set, or Price-Richard Tucker, or especially the old Zinka Milanov-Jussi Björling classic-all much more dramatically vivid-may safely...
...wanted to be a lightning rod for American arts and crafts, Joan Mondale said during the campaign. As the Veep's wife, she has been an electric presence on the museum, gallery and crafts-fair circuit, logging 40,000 miles on her cultural missions. Just as zealous on the home front, she decided to hang handmade ornaments from 60 U.S. craftsmen and -women-cornhusk dolls, beaded Indians, crocheted icicles, free-form tin stars and batik crèche figures-on the 12-ft. Christmas tree in the vice-presidential mansion. "We will use them...
...highly intelligent is being overlooked. The cerebral cortex, the part of the brain thought to be responsible for intelligence and sense perception, is well-developed in the whale and resembles man's cortex in several ways. (For more information on this subject see Mind in the Waters, ed. by Joan McIntyre.) The size and complexity of the Cetacean's brain, though not yet undeniably linked to an ability to reason and feel, raises tantalizing questions. Can whales live? Do they have an oral history? Are they happier than the acquisitive human being? Will we ever be able to communicate verbally...
...enforcement of the law-and especially a jury verdict-is often affected by shifts in public opinion. In two successful murder defenses of recent years, feminists succeeded in "raising the consciousness" of the national public about the emotional problems of Southern black women in the Joan Little case and rape victims in the Inez Garcia trial. Now they hope to shift the spotlight to a Wisconsin trial and the battered-wife syndrome...
...cultivated surface at least--an unbounded propensity for cynicism. Whether this stems from truly eye-opening, hide-hardening experience or whether this is simply an immature attempt to appear worldly and sophisticated is questionable. One suspects it's a little of both. In any case, First Love, directed by Joan Darling--the person who brought us Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman--is probably too maudlin and sentimental to touch the hearts of many Harvard students. Most will guffaw rather than cry. The most blase will leave laughing at the film's triteness and superficiality, confident that they will never fall victim...