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These people do not exist, of course, but Don Pepe's uncle, who manages a Coca-Cola bottling plant, has lent him the money to stage an elaborate bluff. The "parade of stars" consists of Don Pepe's nephew, cousin, stepdaughter and daughter. What follows is a show biz nightmare of ineptitude - jugglers who drop their props, dancers who bump into each other and acrobats who cannot hold each other up. The decrepit old black blues singer and guitarist faces the back of the stage, thumps his foot, forgets all his music and caroms into the pit. Perhaps...
...when an artist of the Kano school (1543-90) produced the magnificent screens of Namban traders arriving in Japan that the Imperial Household Collection lent to New York's show, he took great care with detail: the cloaks, the baggy pantaloons, the rakish curly-brim hats, the mustaches and the grotesquely long noses of the foreign barbarians are meticulously set down. To us, it looks like caricature at first. To the lord Tokugawa, who is believed to have commissioned it, it almost certainly...
...Bennett Jr. urges the University to divest itself of its state and municipal bonds. "These bonds yield 4 1/2 per cent and 5 per cent respectively," Bennett explains. "That's an obvious conflict of interests." President Nixon announces that he is giving up the Paris Peace Talks for Lent...
Ferris's attention to detail was generally more evident in Part II where the orchestration obscures the subtleties far less than in Part I. The ritard at the end of the first chorale was effective, while the firm rhythmic control lent tremendous excitement and emphasis to the Gloria chorus. The Gloria forms an intriguing comparison point between two grants of the high baroque Bach's thick yet clear counterpoint achieves great power with far less effort than Handel's more broken homophonic style in the Messiah section of the same text the chorus Glory...
Some $15 million went to Gulf Stream (Bahamas) Ltd., a Vesco company that is trying to buy the Paradise Island gambling complex in the Bahamas from Resorts International. Vesco's IIT fund also lent $2,150,000 to Sociedad Agricola y Industrial San Cristobal, a company that was founded and is still partly owned by Costa Rican President Figueres. Meanwhile Fund of Funds put $60 million into Inter-american Capital, a shell company allegedly controlled by Vesco and formally headed by Alberto Inocente Alvarez, an adviser to Figueres...