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...transformation occurs in Act II the following morning. Hirst bounds into the room and greets Spooner as a long-lost classmate and friend from Oxford. As they reminisce, the talk turns to sex. Hirst reveals that he had seduced Spooner's wife and enjoyed her as his mistress, while Spooner makes some equally jarring sexual revelations. Then, Spooner makes an eloquent and persuasive case for his staying on as Hirst's personal secretary. As the curtain falls, it looks as if an edgy ménage à quatre has been formed...
Hand Cranks. Finally, the Count's aria ended. Solti scurried to the conductor's dressing room. It was an opportune moment to abandon the podium, because the opera had moved into a recitative section. Thus while Figaro was discovering that he was the long-lost son of two people he could live without, Solti was holding cold compresses to his head. Like the seasoned pros they are, the members of the orchestra began the subsequent sextet by themselves. His arms beating as he ascended into view, Solti returned to his place. His wound turned out to be minor...
...WESTERN, which went thataway years ago, returns on NBC with Quest, the story of two brothers' search for a long-lost sister who has been raised by an Indian tribe. It is all suspiciously similar to John Ford's film The Searchers...
...this analytical and often cynical community, the spirituality of Mormons and their peculiar religious dogma stand out like saffron-robed Krishna followers in a crowd of Unification Church members. Just as the notion of an inconspicuous 19th-century American starting a religion heavily based on a pair of long-lost golden tablets brings snickers here, so the spirituality of Mormonism clashes with the pre-professionalism that prevails here. While Mormons are certainly not opponents of the return to academics, they do not spend their Sundays at the University branch to pad their resumes and applications...
...spelling may vary) who worked in the Bay Area in 1933 (then aged 27) as a salesman ... pls. call Neilson & Green, S.F. 665-4386. Neilson & Green, it turns out, is a detective agency working for Pop Poet Rod McKuen, who hired the sleuths last month to track down his long-lost father. The poet, whose mother died in 1971, was born an illegitimate child in a Salvation Army hospital in 1933. Father disappeared shortly before his son debuted in 1933. "Having been born a bastard," says Rod, "I feel it has given me a head start on all those people...