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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true opera lover that loves to soak up every last bit of juicy opera gossip, this is a book that could easily be read in one sitting, as the comments on the back of the book jacket profess. For all of those sane, not-yet-obsessed opera fans, however, the book will take a little more effort. Although written in a relaxed, unpretentious style, the narrative is inundated with the names of every important performer, publicist, conductor and record company CEO in the business, not to mention the titles and allusions to plot synopses of most of the major operas...

Author: By Chad B. Denton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Dirt on Divas | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...these lines of straight Shakespeare that the cast's comic engineering is most visible. Shakespeare is reinvented Amelia Bedelia-style with a suggestiveness that invites one to reconsider the comic potential inherent in even the most serious Shakespearean dialogues. Here all those idiosyncracies of Elizabethan English that we profess to understand in section are given a thorough airing. What does the guard mean with his "Stand and unfold yourself?" When did thumb-biting stop being synonymous with giving someone the birdie? Just as Hamlet uses the Death of Gonzago as a way to find his accusatory voice, this play allows...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smashing in Spandex: Playing it Again at the Loeb Experimental | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...profess to have suffered longer--I have just been black longer," Dinkins said...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professor Dinkins Urges Students to 'Challenge Racism' | 9/25/1998 | See Source »

...could not fathom the possibility that Hillary did not know much more than the story line of the weekend allowed. "That doesn't seem real to me," said one. "They have no secrets," argued another. "They know each other. They know each other backward and forward." She had to profess ignorance, in this view, because the alternative to being a trusting sucker was being a cold-blooded liar. A longtime Democratic official, who has never been in Clinton's camp, watched the mopping-up operation and marveled at the way the Clintons had used their own misery, if that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: I Misled People | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...might not be the answer. And given the Baptist scandal over the minister who bought a house with his alleged mistress and allegedly embezzled from the church, the myriad Catholic priest child-molestation trials and the numerous other reports of misdeeds from just about every single religious denomination to profess a faith in the divine, I don't think we can trust the clergy any more, either...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Read All About It! | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

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