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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Matthew L. Alexander, one of Harvard's private contractors, said yesterday he knows of one site in western Massachusetts that accepts asbestos, but he refused to name it, "because I don't want other contractors calling this place--they might close...
Despite the musical ambition implicit in the international cast and the Paris Opera name (Bergman used an all-Swedish cast for his Magic Flute), this Don Giovanni is musically undistinguished. Lorin Maazel's conducting sounds muddy and sluggish throughout--which could easily be the fault of the Exeter Street's Rocky Horror-blasted sound system. None of the singers does very much of the ornamentation most music scholars today believe was a critical part of performances in the composer's time. Most of all, there's a surprisingly lackadaisical air about Mozart's music as Losey presents it--as though...
There is an ethic of controversy: Debate an argument in its own terms; expose pernicious misuse where practiced; but do not degrade scientific discourse, even "in the name of the People." Daniel Bell Professor of Sociology
BORN. To Meryl Streep, 30, high-cheek-boned actress (The Deer Hunter, Manhattan), and her husband, Sculptor Don Gummer, 32: a son, their first child; in New York City. Name: Henry...
Mavis Gallant. The name has a romantic ring to it, suggesting a pretty girl, sunlight on English countryside and happy endings, possibly during the Battle of Britain. But no modern writer casts a colder eye on life, on death and all the angst and eccentricity in between. A Canadian, Mrs. Gallant has lived in France since World War II. There she produces her lapidary long stories and an occasional dazzling short novel, usually set in Europe. Her work appears regularly in The New Yorker. Canada seems about to give her the Governor General's Literary Award...