Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most successful Parisian theater scandals need as much care and planning as the most successful general strikes. The opening-night audience must arrive at the Paris Opéra knowing just how furious it will soon become; how else would everyone be sure to bring rotten eggs and carrots under his coat? The Paris press seemed to be coaxing up a fine rumble shortly after the first rehearsal of Maurice Béjart's new production of Berlioz' The Damnation of Faust. HOW BÉJART WILL UNDRESS MARGUERITE, promised one headline; FAUST IS A PEEPING TOM, declared...
...concert of sacred music in Memorial Church. The quality of the combination was something less than the sum of the quality of the Choir and the BSO, because the two compositions the orchestra played alone hardly matched the two works sung by the choir, Brahms' Fest- und Gedenksprueche, Op. 109 and Mozart's Litaniae de Venerabili Altaris Sacramento...
Sheer necessity once demanded that you own three houses, one in Malibu, one in Palm Springs and one in Beverly Hills. But now you can reverse field and have no house at all. This saves money and is considered bright. Billy Wilder has a simple $100,000 co-op apartment with a low monthly maintenance...
...concentrating more and more on the bathroom as an index of how luxurious they are. San Francisco's brand-new building at 2555 Leavenworth Street has 24-carat gold-plated faucets and toilet bowls in eight of its apartments. The bathrooms in Fifth Avenue's newest co-op deluxe, 812 Fifth Avenue (apartment prices range from $48,600 to $200,900), have marble floors and walls, and in each of the shower stalls there is a special spout a few inches off the floor for pretesting the water with a tentative toe. Bidets are standard equipment...
...op apartment would dramatically enlarge Harvard's Faculty housing facilities, described by L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president, as "miniscule." The University owns about 15 houses that it rents to Faculty members and also operates the Botanic Garden Apartments on Garden...