Word: les
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...FORBIDDEN BROADWAY 1993, is as up to date as Kansas City and as funny as anything that happened on the way to the forum. New shows (the flop Anna Karenina, Patti LuPone in the not-even-yet-produced Sunset Boulevard) are raked over the coals; old chestnuts (a frenzied Les Miz, a nontraditional Miss Saigon) are freshly roasted. The song titles alone delight (to the tune of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a mock Mandy Patinkin sings Somewhat Overindulgent; the stars of the Gershwins' Crazy for You croon Replaceable You); the four protean performers are the tops...
...BLACK MAN IS DOUSED IN GASOLINE AND SET ON fire. A note found nearby reads "one les ((sic)) nigger more to go" and is signed "KKK." It happened in Hillsborough County, Florida, on New Year's Day, and last week three white men were arrested in connection with the attack. It was a fitting backdrop for the FBI's first ever national report on the subject of bias crimes. The study, based on information supplied by law-enforcement agencies in 32 states, found that 4,558 hate-crime incidents were reported in 1991. Racial bias motivated 6 of 10 offenses...
...Falletta, is important in our collective consciousness-raising. On an eponymous new CD (Koch Classics), the group unearths a splendid Overture by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (Felix's sister). But the real pleasures are in the Concertino for Harp and Orchestra by Germaine Tailleferre, perhaps the least known of Les Six, and in two pieces by Lili Boulanger, Nadia's sister. Boulanger's D'un Soir Triste, 12 minutes of heartbreaking pathos, ought to be in every man's repertoire...
Defense Secretary-designate Les Aspin, 54, is a former whiz kid from Robert McNamara's Pentagon. He earned a reputation on Capitol Hill as a Pentagon gadfly but is now one of Washington's wisest military hands...
...named Henry Cisneros, former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Jesse Brown, a wounded Vietnam veteran, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Their appointments were only the No. 3 news item out of Little Rock that day. No. 1: Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, will be named Secretary of Defense this week. No. 2: Clinton has settled on Richard Riley, former Governor of South Carolina, as Secretary of Education, instead of Johnnetta Cole (or so say the leakers). That indicates the President-elect is shying away...