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...script this kind of bad-mouthing. On the women's tour, it's as common as a backhand down the line. Part of the fun of women's tennis, besides the fact that players are better than ever before, is the fact that it's a soap opera in which everyone gets to play Alexis Carrington...
...oceans, he returned to China with stones, ivory and wood. But when Marco Polo traveled to the Middle Kingdom, he brought back to Italy a wealth of information and discoveries. If he were to go to China today, he would probably return with no more than a Beijing opera mask and a badly stitched cheongsam...
...that China has won the bid to host the 2008 Olympics, more foreigners will be visiting the country than ever. They will travel to historic sites and through the back alleys of towns and villages. The Chinese will prepare performances of Beijing opera singers, child acrobats and sword-wielding Shaolin monks to satisfy the West's "China dream," one that has so little to do with ordinary Chinese life...
...staff, though, the music is the only reason he is here. Terry is here to take lessons with his voice teacher; working in dining staff is simply convenient. With aspirations of singing at the Met someday, he enjoys letting the rest of the staff in on his love of opera. I highly doubt that anywhere else the indoor cleaning staff would be vacuuming the dining hall to Kathy Battle singing a selection of Mozart arias...
...bought my TiVo because my editor keeps scheduling meetings during that soap opera with Timmy the Living Doll. But when I programmed it for the first time after coming home one Saturday night--the last I would ever spend outside my apartment--I decided to try to impress it, so I'd get pooled with the smart people. I asked it to tape Meet the Press, Full Metal Jacket and some British sitcom called Keeping Up Appearances...