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...scheduled to move from the Aldwych, perhaps as early as next year, into one of those concrete culture centers that look like a Führerbunker. More space, more audiences, more responsibility and, most difficult, different roots. One problem at the National Theater just now is that the lavish new quarters on the South Bank of the Thames seem - in the way that culture cathedrals do - to weigh upon the work rather than let it breathe and flourish. A hothouse is required for an arts center, but a mausoleum is what usually gets built...
...typical of Sills to turn her farewell to opera (she will still sing light fare on television) not simply into a lavish party but into a $1 million fund raiser for the New York City Opera, of which she is now general director. The jubilee was at the New York State Theater, in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, before an S.R.O. audience of 2,700. Tickets to the gala benefit went for as much as $1,000. For her last role Sills chose Rosalinda in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, the part in which she had made...
...Every day is a day of joy aboard the M.S. Prinsendam. Six passenger decks are devoted to the luxurious vacation life you expect, with an ambience of intimacy and charm." So begins a lavish illustrated brochure touting the pleasures of cruising to Alaska and the Orient aboard the Holland America Line's gleaming 426-ft. Prinsendam. Notes the pamphlet: "Your Dutch officers are dedicated to making every moment memorable...
...maintenance costs. But shameless luxury is still available to the unabashed motoring materialist. As Ford and Chrysler executives last week nervously waited for buyer response to such new, fuel-efficient small cars as the Ford Escort and Dodge Aries, automotive big spenders could anticipate the arrival of two lavish examples of conspicuous consumption on wheels...
...awareness; as he explains, birds act as a kind of "ecological litmus paper," reacting to changes in their surroundings long before man does. Even Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, learned "birding" from the guide. Finally, Peterson may have wrought some environmental changes himself; his followers have been so lavish in putting food out for birds that many cardinals, mourning doves and white-throated sparrows are now spending their winters in the North...