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...BEGINNING of The Fantasticks, the female lead, Luisa (Angelynne Koromilas), winks coyly at the audience before running offstage Indeed, the characters are continually winking their way through their lines. The result is an entirely pleasurable evening of parody--of romantic love, of plays about romantic love. and even of people who go to see plays about romantic love...
...group addressing this obstacle of lingering machismo is the Association of Nicaraguan Women Luisa Amanda Espinoza (AMNLAE). One of the FSLN's seven sub-organizations, AMNLAE was named after the first martyred female FSLN comandante, and aims to "transform, little by little, the situation of margination and backwardness of the Nicaraguan women." According to Silvia Reyes, and AMNLAE leader, that means helping women to deal with machismo in personal relationships, and to use economic and political potential to rebuild war-torn Nicaragua...
...paced himself well. Says Eugene Kohn, a former accompanist and coach of Pavarotti's: "There was fear that he would lose the bloom of sound and the top notes. But if the repertoire stays too light, you don't give the voice free rein. I recently heard him in Luisa Miller in London, and ins voice was fantastically enriched for having sung heavier parts." Pavarotti is preparing the formidable role of Radames in Aida for San Francisco in 1981. Lohengrin may even be down the road some day. "I continue to take risks," he says. "I could spend the rest...
Every day, four or five bulging mailbags arrive on the 23rd floor of the Time-Life Building in Rockefeller Center. The letters are immediately pored over by Letters Chief Maria Luisa Cisneros and her staff. The most newsworthy are sent to Reporter-Researcher Nancy Chase, who picks those that will be published. A digest of the week's letters is also distributed to TIME'S editors and news bureaus. All letters are acknowledged, and those that question the tone, emphasis or factual content of a story are answered by Cisneros, her deputy, Isabel Kouri...
...arguing with your parents can only lead to hurt, that the world is an ugly place, that it isn't worth exploring other places and ideas because the boy and girl next door are the best there is. The main action of the first act--the attempted rape of Luisa that Huckelbee and Bellomy stage so that Matt can defeat her abductors in a moment of glory--isn't funny anymore. Rape is frighteningly real these days, and when El Gallo and the two fathers sing "It Depends on What You Pay," haggling over how elaborate an abduction El Gallo...