Word: mcewen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's No. 2 opera house hit rock bottom last Feb. 9. That afternoon the general director of the San Francisco Opera, Terence McEwen, announced his resignation because of ill health after a troubled six-year stint at the helm of the company. A few hours later, McEwen's predecessor, the autocratic Kurt Herbert Adler, died of a heart attack. The Viennese-born Adler had ruled the organization like a private satrapy for 28 years and had remained its irascible eminence grise. Suddenly the troupe was leaderless and, it seemed to many, artistically rudderless as well...
That reputation began to slide over the past decade. True, there were highlights like McEwen's 1985 Ring cycle, a dazzling vocal show that remains the best-sung Ring of the past 30 years. But there were also routine evenings of ridden-out war-horses and indifferent conducting. Meanwhile, a deepening budget deficit of $2 million forced the elimination of the company's short summer season. With a bottom-line board of directors perched on his shoulder, McEwen never had the freedom that Adler enjoyed. Nor, apparently, will his successor. "Opera has changed from the autocratic days, when people like...
...Super Bowl champion the year of the last strike, in 1982, Washington was the only team without a veteran strikebreaker, though a few old hands were bumped last week for their trouble. Glenn Dennison lost his reserve tight-end slot to a man he had beaten out earlier, Craig McEwen. "If I knew then what I know now," Dennison said, "I'd have never left." Quarterback Babe Laufenberg, who ended a third Redskins episode with still no playing time, squandered his best chance on the picket line. "I have one foot on a banana peel and the other...
...singles promote themselves via 30-second video clips, comedy routines that, good or bad, do not go down easily at 7:55 a.m., and Hartley's dog Daisy, which gets petted a lot. All of this is witnessed by a studio audience that on opening day found even Mark McEwen's weather casts worthy of applause...
...McEwen (R-Ohio), commenting on the entire situation, said, "Hell hath no fury like a congressional committee scorned...