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...former Harvard House master became a world-class opera singer overnight, travelling from Pittsburgh to Amsterdam to Carcacas in a 14-year career spanning dozens of operas. His performance stirred Variety magazine to use the words "Richard T. Gill" and "tour de theatre" in the same sentence...
...Gill added another section to his resume. Combining the scholarship of his Harvard days with the glamour of the opera, Gill found a home in the television studio, helping to create ECONOMICS U$A, a 28-program public broadcasting television series for which he served as an on-air analyst...
...than 400 items like poached raspberry salmon ($4.99 a portion) or grilled tenderloin ($19.99 per lb.) prepared by 35 on-site chefs and bakers daily. Shoppers can sniff 100 different kinds of cheeses or make their own six-packs of international and domestic microbrews to the strains of Italian opera...
...Slide, without transition, into singing softly or humming, as if the soliloquy were simply the spoken part of a musical performance, like an opera. In this way, you give the performance an obscurely higher purpose, as if it were a rehearsal that the bystander was fortunate to overhear...
...markets) is nearly as naive as Truman. The show is also pretty tame. Unlike most daytime-drama characters, Truman is a faithful husband who has no evil twin and does not suffer bouts of amnesia. For 30 years the show has been a pageant of placidity, a hypoallergenic soap opera where the tension is in the subtext. Will he find out? How's it going...