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...understand why Leona Helmsley might want a $45,000 silver clock modeled after a building owned by her billionaire husband, even if you wouldn't want one yourself. What's harder to understand is why she would bother breaking the law to get it. That, in fact, is part of her lawyer's answer to official charges that the Helmsleys cheated the Government of $4 million in taxes by wrongly charging off sundry personal gewgaws as business expenses: Would people so rich risk jail for an amount so (relatively) small...
...cast spent much of the performance looking down at its collective feet so as not to stumble across the treacherous obstacle course of risers and steps. As a result, Marton, born for the title role, was oddly tentative, the sturdy Domingo seemed distracted and ill at ease, while Soprano Leona Mitchell's hey-look-me-over Liu was too aggressive. Only Cuenod's crotchety Emperor -- a Swiss singing Italian the way he imagines a Chinese might -- hit the mark. James Levine conducted grandly, and the powerful choruses were declaimed lustily if not suavely...
Price is especially proud of the part she has played in opening the world's stages to younger black singers like Sopranos Leona Mitchell and Kathleen Battle. "I am here, and you will know that I am the best and will hear me," says Price, summarizing her philosophy. "The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to." She took particular satisfaction from singing with Bass Simon Estes in her farewell Aida: "It makes me feel just wonderful to have this black...
...Leona Davidson, at the Cambridge Savings Bank, 1375 Mass. Ave., told police that a man in his thirties walked into the bank at about 3:15 p.m. Tuesday and handed her a note that read, "I have a gun, give...
...effective. Sometimes they are not up to major-house standards, as with Tenor Philip Creech, whom Levine has pushed beyond the limit of his modest gifts. But his commitment to certain singers has paid off in the development of several young Americans who are potential stars, among them Sopranos Leona Mitchell and Kathleen Battle. And his tireless work with the Met orchestra has greatly raised the level of its playing: short of the Vienna State Opera orchestra's class, but at least on a par with the excellent Royal Opera House orchestra in London...