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Warner and musical director Richard Shore incorporate a wide range of musical styles in the production--from Cole Porter to Rogers and Hammerstein, to Vangelis. The music works surprisingly well, illuminating a particular mood, heightening or relieving the tension of a particular scene, but is most effective as a means of drawing out the opposition between theatre-as-entertainment and theatre-as-human drama. The two extremes complement one another, the theatrical play creating something positive from the tragic experiences Wedekind presents...
...tickets for the soccer games and the opening ceremonies are still available at the Sears store in Porter Square, according to a store spokesman...
Tickets are available from the Harvard ticket office in Harvard Hall, by mail from the Olympic Committee in Los Angeles, or from local participating Sears stores (The Sears closest to Harvard is in Porter Square on Mass...
...chairman of Sotheby's, the world's leading art-auction firm, who was responsible for transforming the genteel, Old World establishment into a glamorous high-tech $575 million-a-year business; of the effects of diabetes; in Paris. After joining Sotheby's in 1936 as a porter, the normally reticent Wilson became a nonpareil auctioneer, dubbed the "fastest gavel in the West." Rising to chairman in 1958, he set about overseas expansion, establishing offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the U.S., notably in New York City with the acquisition of Parke Bernet. His taste, timing...
...detailed composition") reports such esoteric details as the underground railroad station from which Franklin Roosevelt was whisked to his suite by a secret elevator. The books abound in learned footnotes and pleasant trivia (the pianist at the Waldorf's Peacock Alley uses an instrument once owned by Cole Porter, who lived in the hotel). New York restaurant critiques, by Daily News Food Editor Arthur Schwartz, are deft and sometimes devastating. At the toplofty "21" Club, the guide observes, "it is surprising how democratic the cooks and waiters are: no one gets terrific food or service...