Word: rice
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EVITA Lyrics by Tim Rice; Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber...
Argentina's renowned man of letters, Jorge Luis Borges, has characterized her as a "common prostitute." That scarcely fazes Messrs. Rice and Lloyd Webber and Director Harold Prince as they bestow on Eva Duarte Perón some of the epic dimensions attributed to her by her ardent worshipers, the descamisados (shirtless ones), the poorest of the Argentine poor...
...Foggy Bottom. The appetizers included quail eggs stuffed with caviar and a bipartisan receiving line comprising Vance and his three living predecessors, Henry Kissinger, William Rogers and Dean Rusk. They and the guests sat down to a dinner of rockfish, roast pheasant, oyster plant on artichoke bottoms, wild rice with water chestnuts, salmagundi salad and brie, along with a '76 Pommard and toasts in '69 Dom Pérignon. It was a menu that first Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson might have served. But to 177 people? Only if Jefferson too charged $1,000 a plate, most likely...
...walked in here in Rochester expecting the same thing, but Russ Sibley [an active alumnus] was standing outside--he put a drink in my hand, got me talking to four other people, and was back outside again before I knew it," Rice says...
...Most of what I hear just confirms my suspicions that little has changed in the 15 or 20 years since I left," Rice says...