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Varii Capricci finds both soloists in splendid form, but paradoxically playing against type; Ashton seems to have in mind a parody not only of his own romantic aesthetic but also of the origin of the fabled partnership as well. Here is the regal Sibley, the gossamer Titania of The Dream, reduced to a semislattern with one thing on her mind. Here is the princely Dowell, once her dashing Oberon, as an even more unsatisfying lover, a sexually indeterminate gigolo with Saturday-night fever. At the end of the first, teasingly erotic pas de deux, Dowell effortlessly lifts Sibley aloft...
Kirkland House yesterday was rife with speculation as to the origin of the threatening phone call...
Rumors abounded over the origin of the prank; some said it was an MIT trick, other blamed the women's crew team...
Amnesty International was established in 1961 by a British lawyer concerned about human rights. It later branched out to include a network of American college students working for the release of prisoners unjustly detained by governments on grounds of religion, ethnic origin, or political belief. The group was awarded the 1977 Nobel peace prize...
That reputation leads Westerners to think of Bulgaria, if they think of it at all, as a sort of 16th republic of the Soviet Union. The country's roots, in fact, lie elsewhere. Its name comes from the Bulgars, a people of Turkic origin that moved south of the Danube and into present-day Bulgaria in the 7th century. Conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1396, the Bulgarians spent the next 500 years under the yoke of Constantinople before being set free by the Tsar's forces. During both world wars the country sided with Germany...