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...brash conservatism. At a dinner honoring another conservative deity, Margaret Thatcher, she was escorted by David Brock, the writer for the American Spectator who reported the Arkansas state troopers' allegations about President Clinton's infidelities. She played host to a book party for author and former Bush aide Jim Pinkerton, a young conservative Washington author. Another new friend is attorney Laura Ingraham, former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and a member of a group of counterfeminists who are shaking up G.O.P. power circles. Ingraham calls Huffington "a great role model" because of her warmth. Unlike most important people...
...before Miss Saigon) and a Forza del Destino in Spain during the Civil War. But he is best known for productions that are traditional in concept, modern in their psychological astuteness and, occasionally, rude in their action. At the climax of the love duet in the Met's Butterfly, Pinkerton begins stripping his bride, who throws back her head in ecstasy. On opening night, the sequence was loudly booed by another member of opera's aristocracy, former diva Licia Albanese, who in Mario's day played Butterfly as an elegant geisha. Albanese ``looks at the opera from the moral viewpoint...
...security guard at the Holyoke Center said that Pinkerton Security Services, the security company in charge of the center, was investigating the theft...
...before Miss Saigon) and a Forza del Destino in Spain during the Civil War. But he is best known for productions that are traditional in concept, modern in their psychological astuteness and, occasionally, rude in their action. At the climax of the love duet in the Met's Butterfly, Pinkerton begins stripping his bride, who throws back her head in ecstasy. On opening night, the sequence was loudly booed by another member of opera's aristocracy, former diva Licia Albanese, who in Mario's day played Butterfly as an elegant geisha. Albanese "looks at the opera from the moral viewpoint...
...Mozart's Don Giovanni to Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, the figure of the libertine, that politically incorrect swine, has swaggered provocatively through 200 years of operatic history. Cads, bounders and rakehells abound onstage: one thinks not only of the lecherous Don and Tom Rakewell but of Nerone, Pinkerton and Eugene Onegin as well -- moral reprobates who give hardly a second thought to the consequences of their actions...