Word: ra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painful back ailment); in Havana. A dignified, rather bourgeois Communist, in contrast to the bearded, fatigue-clad rebel leaders, Dorticós chaired the country's main economic planning body and was the regime's No. 3 man, after the Castros, Fidel and his younger brother Ra...
...came as to the strong position of the Chinese government with regard to the Taiwan question." While reporters gaped, O'Neill plowed on: "My knowledge of foreign affairs, to be quite truthful, is extremely limited." Um, well, O.K. In that case, Tip, give us a bit of Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra...
...contractor a barren hill a mile north of town. He explained that the government controlled 62½ acres there, and would let the contractor have them for $14,000 per acre, about one-twentieth of what the land would cost in the nearby Israeli towns of Kefar Sava and Ra'ananna. He added, "If you will build 250 villas there, we will help you finance the project, and we will develop the area for you." The landscape is stunning, the air clean, and the site is close to every urban center in Israel. The state will build roads, schools...
...never sung there. Somewhat ingenuously, Levine blames their absence partly on the Met's distance from Europe. Even in the Concorde age, he contends, they prefer to work closer to home, no more than a couple of hours' flight from Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra or Milan's La Scala, rather than take up extended residence in New York. Further, Levine says, the heavily subsidized European houses can afford to pay as much as 50% more than the Met's top fee of about $8,000 a performance. Domingo concurs with Levine...
...gallery walls are Erté's original paintings of the sets and costumes he created for such disparate productions as George White's Scandals in New York City in the '20s and Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Paris Opéra...