Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more of a match for La Perichole than Piquillo is. His resonant baritone has an edge to it that makes it stand out even in the large chorus members. Randolph's speaking voice, a natural British accent dulled somewhat by his moving to New Jersey, seems a bit odd in a story that takes place in Peru. Likewise, the sets, colorful but subtle hues that provide a good background for the sometimes intentionally garish costumes, look very little like anything in any Latin American country that I've ever seen. But this is opera; we shouldn't ask any questions...
...paying customers adapted rather easily to this odd, contradictory atmosphere: grueling daytime practice and lessons, talking and living music, combined with nigh time lunacy. This was no kiddie camp, so there weren't curfews or parietals. And because we were stupid and inspired by our wacky role models, we stayed up incessantly-to bake early-morning bread, or contemplate the eternal under a sky-full of stars. Music was everything, but sex was more than everything. The outside world quickly faded, and no one read newspapers. We all turned vegetarian...
...walked out in the streets of La redo," goes the old cowboy lament. Residents of the Texas town (pop. 91,449) are now asking, "What streets?" Thanks to former officials who "mishandled" city funds, an astonishing 2,720 of Laredo's 5,400-odd blocks need paving at a cost of some $10,000 each. Another 2,000 blocks require resurfacing at $2,600 apiece. With little money available for such work, Mayor Aldo Tatangelo and City Councilman Felipe Sanchez decided to put the streets on the block...
...COOL to be middle-aged. The same generation that 15-odd years ago in its flaming youth stole the stage is now dragging culture-consumers of all ages and sensibilities through its mid-life crisis. The children of Marx and Coca-Cola, as Godafd described them in his wonderful 1966 film Masculin-Feminin, are now the adults of EST and Perrier. And their movies--An Unmarried Woman, The Goodbye Girl, Kramer Versus Kramer, and now Shoot the Moon--are self-centered and, mostly, boring. Television is now catching on, with ABC offering a TV-movie that cashes in on both...
DIED. René Jules Dubos, 81, microbiologist and environmentalist; of cancer; in New York City. Dubos won fame in 1939 for research that led to the first commercially produced antibiotics. He expounded the idea in several of his 20-odd books that a favorable environment is necessary to human physical, mental and social development; So Human an Animal won a Pulitzer Prize...