Word: mignone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trouble began when he attempted the opera's biggest aria, "Cielo e mar." His voice was ragged, and the audience booed. Poor Bini was so stunned that Mezzo-Soprano Mignon Dunn had to hold his hands. Said she: "I was afraid if I let him go, he would leave stage." By this time the audience was divided: some continued booing; others tried to stop them. In the balcony, rival factions smacked each other with programs. From the orchestra pit Conductor Giuseppe Patané, who was ill himself, pleaded with the audience to be quiet; eventually he too collapsed under...
...should be prepared for some shockers. In Oslo, for example, a Scotch and soda runs nearly $6. A glass of beer in even a modest café is $5. In Osaka, Japan, an expatriate housewife will probably pass the supermarket meat counter once she notes the cost of filet mignon: $78.94 for a kilogram (2.2 lbs.). A white shirt in a fashion able Nairobi clothing store can sell for as much...
...agent Jo is a bank executive. They have been friends for years and eat at their favorite fancy restaurant down town. Oftentimes Arden brings a prospective buyer with him. Sometimes Jo brings a major depositor of her expensive dish--shrimp or lobster Rockefeller when in season; Jo, the filet mignon Jo likes the $3.95 cheesecake for dessert and usually orders it saying "I'll log it off on the way home." Because Arden rents a new Mercedes Renz cash year to drive buses around he drives to work lacks exercise and does not eat dessert because "I'd rather just...
Lunch at 1 p.m. in the White House second-floor dining room is a wooing session with representatives of 20 Hispanic organizations. As usual, Reagan dines with gusto: a rich shellfish soup, filet mignon, artichoke salad, California red wine and fruit compote. He assures his guests that five Hispanic appointments to the sub-Cabinet are "in the pipeline." By 2:15 p.m. he is back at his desk, making phone calls and signing papers...