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...would the mayor set aside a big chunk of downtown (Union Square) and invite 10,000 for a musicale? Where else would Jesus Freaks mingle with bankers and hard hats to watch Fafner the Dragon chase Wagner's Rhinemaidens and the clowns from I Pagliacci on specially constructed mini-stages? Who else but Adler could persuade Prima Donna Joan Sutherland to brave both the crowd and the city's infamous outdoor air-conditioning and sing Ah fors' è lui and Sempre libera from Verdi's La Traviata? Introduced by his Honor Joseph Alioto, the statuesque...
...first seven months of this year, acting on complaints about auto-repair overcharges and pushy door-to-door selling tactics, the section has helped persuade businessmen to return $60,000 to cheated consumers. Recently a promoter came into the state promising big earnings to people who bought distributorships for Mini Meal candy bars, which he claimed were developed for astronauts. Section investigators wangled an invitation to a closed sales presentation and decided that the earnings claims were wildly overblown. Chenoweth persuaded the promoter to get out of the state. Now she aims to get the legislature to approve a bill...
...Caldwells, they are building an in-flight mini-empire. In 1970, they started Northwest's Passages, making Caldwell Communications the only company publishing two major in-flights. The next step is to get money from readers as well as advertisers. Some issues of The American Way contain order blanks offering a year's subscription at $7.50 to passengers who want it at home...
...with rabies. Though he continued to play and compose (he once studied with Arnold Schonberg), Levant's musicianship was never taken very seriously -except, of course, by Oscar. His classical composition had a sweet, derivative aura, reminiscent of movie scores. (He wrote several, including a mini-opera for Charlie Chan at the Opera.) His pianistic enthusiasm was showy but, except for Gershwin's music, Levant tended to pound the instrument like the back of an old crony...
...drawn central figure of the Holy Spirit (the rest of the figures are stereotypic and pedestrian.) "Our Lady of Jerusalem" is the only example from the famous Novgorod school. And the greatest of Russian icon painters--Feofan the Greek and Andrel Rublev--are not represented at all in the mini-exhibition. (I asked one of the Soviet guides about their absence and he replied that the potential damage to icons from an ocean crossing dissuaded the committee from bringing the greater masterpieces...