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...subject. The title role, superbly sung by Van Dam, must surely be the longest individual part in the operatic literature. The saint appears in seven of the eight tableaux and does much, if not most, of the singing in each. At the composer's request, Giuseppe Crisolini-Malatesta based the sets and costumes on paintings by Fra Angelico, Giotto and Matthias Grünewald. As staged by Sandro Sequi, scenes are played in small, diorama-like boxes to emphasize the work's distant, legendary quality. The only serious dramatic defect is the sixth scene, the sermon...
...courts. In two press conferences since the investigation was announced Aug. 6, Agnew had lambasted the leaks, demanding that Richardson locate the culprits in his department and dismiss them. Richardson said that he could not trace the leaks; Agnew's staff felt that he would not. When Peter Malatesta, one of Agnew's aides, was asked what was new with his boss, Malatesta returned: "Don't ask me ? ask the Justice Department. That's where the leaks come from. I've done my Christmas shopping for the Attorney General. I'm getting him two cases of Zerex stop-leaks...
Ready to Argue. In this kind of atmosphere, the humor, understandably, was either black or a very dark shade of gray. At a party at the home of Peter Malatesta, Agnew's political handyman, the pianist glided into an old favorite -"Don't throw bouquets at me... Don't laugh at my jokes too much ..." Listening, Murray Chotiner, Nixon's longtime adviser, took the cigar out of his mouth and cracked: "That's the Vice President singing to the President." Malatesta, the nephew of Bob Hope, quickly whispered into the ear of the pianist...
...play is based on the story of Francesca and Paolo, from Dante's Inferno. Francesca, the beautiful wife of Giovanni Malatesta, a hunchbacked nobleman, is in love with her husband's brother, Paolo. Paolo has visited Francesca every day for a year to read her romantic poetry. One day he reads her the tale of how Launcelot first kissed Queen Guenivere, and that day is "the day they read of it no more." When Giovanni sees them Jeave arm in arm, he decides to murder them...
...such a ridiculous name. Said the judge: "The Puritan mind . . . felt the need to name many girl babies Patience, Prudence, Peace, Faith, Hope, Charity, Tolerance, Preserved and even Chastity. Many names from abroad escape notice only because they must be translated. Thus, we have Semtana, Neugeboren, Trissotin and Malatesta, which, in their respective languages, refer to Messrs. Sour Cream, Newly Born, Three Times Silly and Headache...