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...Hunding's chilly glass-paned palace, is gained in unorthodox but expressive detail that may be overlooked in the theater. In Wotan's sorrowfully reflective second-act monologue in Die Walküre, Bass-Baritone Donald McIntyre stands before a full-length mirror; tearing off the patch that covers his lost eye, Wotan searches for his soul and finds only an emptiness that foreshadows the twilight of the gods. For all its mythic dimensions, the Ring is basically a family tragedy, just the thing for the intimacy of the small screen. Conductor Pierre Boulez presides over a transparent...
...days on end, the financial world waited in suspense as bankers tried to patch together the two rescue packages. In the case of Mexico, 13 leading U.S., Japanese, British and West German bankers worked around the clock for nearly two weeks in the 29th-floor dining room of Citicorp headquarters in New York City to keep the country from defaulting. "It was handled like a money-raising telethon," one observer recounted later. Just the process of sending out the 27-page rescheduling proposal to some 1,400 banks involved in Mexico's loans gobbled up 600 hours of telex...
...Soviet hints and American guesses came along just as the Reagan Administration was trying to patch up its bruised image in Western Europe. During the past year, the transatlantic dialogue has deteriorated into a shouting match over high U.S. interest rates, East-West trade and European subsidies for farm products. Thus, in his visits to Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, Paris, Madrid and London, Shultz made a special effort to ease West European fears that the Reagan Administration had little interest in fostering international economic and monetary cooperation...
...Marince had a bad accident when he was 17 years old. He was riding in a car that skidded over a patch of ice and was thrown out the" passenger door and into the path of an oncoming truck. He woke up two days later in Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital, a tube in his throat and a machine pumping air down his trachea. Rob had lost the use of his arms and legs, and his lungs were paralyzed as well. The doctors said that he would spend his life on his back, unable to perform the simplest tasks...
Reagan made the bargaining-chip argument because he is concerned about securing congressional approval for the system. He hopes to patch together an uneasy alliance in support of the program made up of hawks who want the MX for its own sake and doves who want it so the U.S. can give it away. That ploy may well backfire. By implying that the U.S. might be able to live without the MX in certain circumstances after all, Reagan has produced a self-contradiction that weakens the case for the missile as indispensable, a fact congressional skeptics have quickly pointed...