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...inauguration, Cooper, who is light-skinned (his great-great-grandmother was the mistress of Confederate General Jean Jacques Alexandre Alfred Mouton and is buried beside him in Lafayette, La.), pledged that his administration would offer "equal opportunity in everything" to both races. With his London-educated wife Mado at his side, the new mayor conceded that a swimming pool in a black neighborhood was "psychologically and realistically inaccessible" to whites and that "white kids are swimming in a polluted creek." He would get the money, he promised, to build a new pool convenient to both races, but "they...
...Mado Robin, 35, a petite ambassadress from the Paris Opera, opened the season as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, determined not to go unnoticed. During her first scene, before Rigoletto's house, she was just a demure little coloratura. But opportunity beckoned in her florid aria, Caro Nome, and Soprano Robin seized it: she unexpectedly gave out with what critics call a B "in altissimo"-up in the whistling range. The audience gasped at the piercing sound (which Conductor Fausto Cleva had specifically outlawed during rehearsals), and the critics scolded. Wrote the Examiner's Alexander Fried: "Startling...
...cheap yet powerful intoxicant mado from the juice of the maguey plant...
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