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Sellars, 37, is the former wunderkind director who brought composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman together for Nixon in China (1987) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1991). He is known for his unconventional settings of operas and plays: he set Mozart's Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, and only last year he moved The Merchant of Venice to Venice, California, just down the beach from Malibu. Always a skillful director of actors and stage movement, Sellars has often seemed capricious in his grand recontextualizations. But in this case, he has created a modern setting that is ingeniously...
What this country needs instead of replacement players is some replacement politicians, some statesmen who understand, as Richard Nixon once said, that ``America isn't America without baseball...
...creation of the United Nations; he initiated the scholars' exchange program two years later when he reached the Senate. Independent by nature, he cast the lone vote against funding Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist investigation in 1954 and traded blows on foreign policy with every President from Truman to Nixon, though he reserved his greatest criticism for Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War. The televised hearings he led in 1966 and 1967 as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee helped turn popular opinion against the war and endeared him to activists like the young Bill Clinton, who worked...
...news didn't surprise, but the forum sure did. Bob Dole has wanted to be President almost forever--this will be his third try--and an announcement was expected soon. But not last Friday night, and certainly not on David Letterman's Late Show. But why not? Richard Nixon said ``Sock it to me'' on Laugh-In in 1968, and later appraised his cameo as ``a stroke that helped people see I wasn't just that Tricky Dick, meanspirited son-of-a-bitch.'' So Dole took a page from the Nixon playbook, and for the same reason. If he feared...
SEVEN YEARS AGO, COMPOSER JOHN ADAMS, librettist Alice Goodman and director Peter Sellars rocked the opera world with Nixon in China. A number of provocative operas based on the lives of the still living or recently deceased followed, and now composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie continue the trend with Harvey Milk, currently in its maiden run at the Houston Grand Opera. But where Nixon took someone who had become a cartoon devil and made him into a man, Harvey Milk takes a fairly ordinary man and makes him into a cartoon saint...