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...there is no false modesty about Price. A confessed "egomaniac," she has a firm sense of her own worth--and her place in opera. It is, after all, somewhat improbable that the daughter of a sawmill worker and a midwife who both sang in a church choir in segregated Laurel, Miss., could rise to the top of a profession historically dominated not only by whites but by Europeans. Yet as Price wrote on her entrance application to a predominantly black college in Wilberforce, Ohio, "I'm worried about the future because I want so much to be a success...
There are illustrators and illustrators. But there is only one Maurice Sendak. His drawings for Grimm fairy tales and his million-copy bestseller, Where the Wild Things Are (1963), unfolded the primary metaphors of dreams; In the Night Kitchen (1970) fused Walt Disney, Laurel and Hardy, the comic strips of Winsor McCay and the reassuring images of bread and bed; Outside Over There (1981), the story of an airborne young heroine, had the enchanting quality of classical ballet. After that, Sendak's interests turned to the stage, and he designed the sets and costumes for Leos Janacek...
...hair until "peace and democracy are restored," and his long white locks became his trademark. Marcos condemned the murder and ordered an investigation by the acting armed forces Chief of Staff Lieut. General Fidel Ramos. That did not appease the opposition. Said former Senator Salvador Laurel: "One by one our leaders are being killed or eliminated...
...include such unlikely bedfellows as Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, and Jaime Ongpin, president of the Benguet mining corporation. Also included are Corazon Aquino, Ninoy's widow, and Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, his younger brother. The opposition draws experience from such veteran Marcos foes as Salvador Laurel, head of the opposition United Nationalist Democratic Organization coalition, and Lorenzo Tañada, 86, the grand old man of the opposition...
...Aquino's stops in Singapore and Taipei? Those, said Ver, were received by the intelligence authorities but were never requested. At least the general knew when the former Senator was due to arrive in Manila? No, replied Ver, his only information was a letter from Opposition Leader Salvador Laurel requesting special security for a Japan Air Lines flight from Tokyo...