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...brutal attacks on the exiled President's supporters are directed by men with similar interests but higher positions: Lieut. Colonel Joseph Michel Francois, the chief of police, and Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the army commander. Under a U.S.-U.N.-brokered deal struck between Aristide and Cedras last July, the general and the colonel were to resign two weeks ago, allowing Aristide to return to the island and his office this week. Instead Cedras has broken agreements and employed every kind of delay while subordinates terrorize the population. Those who can have fled the capital, hoping the countryside is safer. Like...
...United Nations-brokered accord set October 15 as the deadline for General Raoul Cedras's military government to step aside and allow the return of Aristide and democracy. Few in the international community expect a peaceful transfer of power...
Public TV series that aim to educate often benefit by having a knowledgeable guide at the controls -- witness wine writer Hugh Johnson, who was host of Vintage, or art critic Robert Hughes, cicerone of The Shock of the New. The narrator of Dancing is Raoul Trujillo, a marginally telegenic modern dancer- choreographer who reads his lines with unconvincing passion. Under a more pungent guide, Dancing could have skipped a lot of repetitive propaganda. By series' end, viewers will have heard the word culture so often that some may be tempted, like Hermann Goring, to reach for their revolvers...
...premiere), music by Tom Sivak, with additional airs by someone named Tchaikovsky. Commissioned in June 1991, the show was written, rehearsed and opened by September at the Drury Lane Oakbrook Theater in suburban Chicago. This version, which imagines that the Phantom is the brother of Christine's ordinary beau Raoul, stresses the spectacle and italicizes the sexuality. Christine not only kisses the Phantom after he has removed his mask, she also helps him remove his shirt. The production has flourished in regional theaters; a new edition starts touring in April...
Connoisseurs of musicals know that the story has limitations. The Phantom can sing only one kind of song to Christine: I-adore-you-and-you-ab hor-me. Poor pastel Raoul can never be much more than a Parisian Freddy Eynsford-Hill. And yet -- in the magnificent Lloyd Webber version, the appealing Yeston-Kopit or even the lame Ken Hill -- the story works. The Phantom and Christine sing ) their volcanic sentiments in a plot as spare and potent as legend...