Word: jose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other roles run from the accomplished but not overdone leporello of Jose van Dam to Kenneth Riegel's wooden Don Ottavio. Among the women, Kiri Te Knawa's Donna Elvira stands out as the most musically agile and dramatically subtle. Edda Moser afflicts Donna Anna with an unfocused voice and the worst of operatic mannerisms--especially ludicrous with instant translation in English subtitles. She shrieks and sways--the subtitle reads, "I'm fainting." She shrieks once again and staggers to embrace a marble column--"I'm dying...
...students. Now educational green may have to yield to an even more soothing tint: "jailhouse pink." According to Alexander Schauss, director of biosocial research at City College in Tacoma, Wash., the sight of the color pink changes the secretion of hormones, thus reducing aggressiveness. A jail commander in San Jose, Calif., who has tested the theory says it works-for a while. Lieut. Paul Becker found that prisoners were less hostile for the first 15 minutes in a cell that had been painted pink. But after 20 minutes, the hostility grew, and after three hours some of the men started...
...plot to oust Romero was hatched about six months ago by a cadre of liberal army officers organized as a "council of military youth." They were assisted by reformist academics of the Jesuit-run University of Central America Jose Simeon Canas. Inspired by the success of Nicaragua's revolution, both groups were convinced that the only way to prevent all-out "class warfare" was to end the corrupt military regime and, as an intellectual who helped plan Romero's ouster explained last week, overhaul the country's "antiquated economic, social and political structures...
...plotters' plan to "behead the army" by arresting the general staff and putting 85% of the senior officers on the retirement list. Through an American diplomat, they informed Romero that he had until 3 p.m. to get out of the country. With that, the President (whose brother Jose Javier was gunned down by leftists five weeks ago) boarded a plane and fled to Guatemala...
With ten minutes left, Blood dove to his right to stop a hard header from Jose Rico. With that stop he preserved a win he and his team both deserved and needed...