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...Shrewd and dangerous as a snake," as a general in Israeli intelligence describes him, Rifaat flexes his muscles through the 280 tanks and 15,000 troops of the Defense Companies. Charged with the defense of metropolitan Damascus, Rifaat's men have sometimes been called on to defend the government from internal enemies. Last year, for example, they reportedly executed around 100 air force officers who had tried to stage a coup. In February 1982, some 8,000 of Rifaat's troops exacted a bloody revenge against the rebellious Muslim Brotherhood in the historic city of Kama, leaving most...
...rough year on the roller coaster of notoriety, after triumphs in 1982 at the National (including Harold Pinter's Other Places) and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (where Hall directed Orfeo et Eurydice). But last November he staged Verdi's Macbeth at New York City's Metropolitan Opera to a gang of mostly abusive reviews. Then this summer Hall premiered his production of The Ring of the Nibelung at Bayreuth, and things were no sunnier there. The work opened to bad reviews and an audience that sounded, as one reviewer wrote, "like hundreds of savage wolves baying...
Singing her first Briinnhildes last summer in Bayreuth, she emerged as one of the dismal production's few saving graces, a Wagnerian of fiery voice and passionate temperament. At the Metropolitan Opera last week, the German soprano solidified that reputation in Tristan und Isolde, harnessing the mercurial spirit of the Irish princess to a voice of raw, almost primal urgency in a finely calibrated, carefully nuanced reading that gave flesh and blood to a mythical archetype. Says Behrens: "I want to make music in its logical context. I sing the beautiful parts as beautifully...
...Gore Street Rink has been operating at a loss for several years, parents of hockey players told the Cambridge City Council last night. The Metropolitan District Commission, the state organization that owns other municipal property such as Memorial Drive, currently owns and operates the rink...
...driver and owner, Downey, will appear before a Cambridge court on January 10 for driving under the influence of alcohol, a Metropolitan District Commission patrolman, K. Hogabom, said yesterday. If guilty, Downey will face a minimum sentence of seven days imprisonment and a month's suspension of his driving license, the officer added...