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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most eagerly anticipated, and potentially incendiary, musical premiere of the year: an opera about Richard Nixon's landmark visit to the People's Republic of China that also includes Pat Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai among its cast of characters. Although it is sure to provoke strong emotions and conflicting opinions, Nixon in China, currently on display at the Houston Grand Opera, is the most important new opera since Philip Glass gave voice to Mohandas Gandhi in Satyagraha seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stagecraft As Soulcraft | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...speech, which The Daily Pennsylvanian called loosely structured, Leary described television evangelist and Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson as a "nitwit" through whom his congregation had psychedelic experiences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

Kicking Game: Placekicker Scott Kania has yet to attempt a field goal all season, but he has coverted 49 of 55 PAT's. Punter Jack Phelps--who has kicked only 19 times--posts a 35-yd. average...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: The Scouting Report | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...Louisiana and Texas aren't exactly hotbeds of soccer," Centenary Sports Information Director Pat Boores said. "It's a large travel distance for us to play top 20 teams, and they don't want to come down to Shreveport...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Booters Favored for NCAA Tournament Bid | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

...surroundings. I had no objection to Henry's choosing poverty over wealth, if that's what made him comfortable. But I didn't see why I and the rest of the audience should wallow in voyeuristic guilt over not having done the same thing. There's something much too pat and easy about a writer who presents his own lifestyle as the only possible way to live the creative life...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: Bummed Out | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

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