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After successfully leading a campaign last fall to change the name of Boylston St. to John F. Kennedy St., Mayor Vellucci moved on to bigger targets this summer, supporting a request for switching the name of the Charles River to the Kwa Na Ha Nee River...
...nine councilors were more sympathetic to the proposal to host an Indian festival and authorized the city manager to make the necessary arrangements. The celebration will be held this weekend at the Cambridge Common and on the banks of the Kwa Na Ha Nee, with a crowd of several thousand expected to attend...
Above all, Sellars's updating never interferes with the music. In fact, many of his innovations involve clever exploitation of the Handel score. The bouncy rhythms of Dorinda's first-act aria on the ineffable nature of love--she's the beach bunny, nee shepherdess--become the excuse for an hilarious mock-disco strut. Later in the opera, when Dorinda sings of love's bitterness, it is Sellars's inspiration that she pour herself a stiff drink between repetitions (all Orlando's arias consist of six or eight lines repeated again and again), with the result that her octave leaps...
...result of Reagan's combination of large tax cuts and hefty boosts in defense spending. The most prominent of these skeptics are a pair of bad news bears: Henry Kaufman, 53, chief economist for the investment banking house of Salomon Bros., and Albert M. Wojnilower (pronounced Wodge-nee-lauer), 51, who holds the same post at the rival First Boston. They are two of the most respected oracles in the financial community; their ability to analyze and forecast money market trends with unusual accuracy has attracted legions of loyal followers...
...episode of TV's Vega$, has been receiving a hundred offers a day, says her manager Jay Bernstein. "She is as hot as any client I've ever had." And that from the man who handled the sizzling careers of Suzanne Somers and Farrah Fawcett. Davis, nee Reagan, assumed her mother Nancy's maiden name in 1974, she explains, "to have a better chance of having my work judged on its own merit." Is that how it is now being judged? Well, concedes the future First Daughter, "the extra exposure helps...