Word: mos
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There is another side to Rossini, one that his contemporaries knew well but that is now being rediscovered. This is the serious Rossini, the composer of such dramas as Semiramide, Otello, Tancredi, Mosè, La Donna del Lago and Guillaume Tell. Several of these works have returned to the repertory in recent years; in the U.S., two of them were given new productions last week. Mosè and La Donna del Lago-produced, respectively, in Philadelphia and Houston-have not been seen in this country for more than a century...
...Mosè does not deserve its obscurity...
...through the woods, not to mention a 200-foot observation sombrero, all based on a Mexican theme filtered through several layers of bias, ignorance and Hanna-Barbera. As the brochure says, "Ees onlee wan South of the Border, Amigos, where Pedro has put eet all together to make ze mos' excite vacation stop between La Canada and Key West! Ees leetle Mexico on 100 acres weeth 300 beeyooteefool rooms, shops, 3 sweem pools, par 3 golf, light-up tennis courts, gorjous landscape gardens, plus bran' new sombrero een zee sky tower weeth elevator to go opp een, see ever'teeng...
...stayed, except that I didn't want to return to I-95. Before long my stop evolved into a goal--I was going to visit every shop, eat at every restaurant, see every sight South of the Border had to offer. At the Hot Tamale Restaurant ("zee mos" beeyotee fool fast-food Restaurant een ze South"), a hot tamale. At EI Toro Steak Room, a steak, at the EI Sombrero Room ("weeth a thousand sombreros on ceiling), some fried chicken...
...Berlinguer made it clear that he would not bend before blunt Moscow messages. "We will stick to our road, whatever the initiatives or in comprehensions of other Communist parties might be," he told a crowd of Communist employees in Turin last week. Clearly that road would not lead to Mos cow. P.C.I, officials confirmed that Berlinguer, for the first time, would be absent from the Italian delegation at world Communism's quinquennial pageant...