Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baby. "Comme elle est belle!" corrected her husband, Conductor Andre Previn. It had taken two years to make the arrangements, but the three-year-old Previn twins now have a three-month-old sister, a war orphan from Saigon. Her name, which Andre says "has just the right Eastern ring about it," is Kym Lark. It means Miss Joyful...
...career, it was records that brought him prominence. His 1957 recording of Wagner's Die Walküre with Kirsten Flagstad, Set Svanholm and the Vienna Philharmonic, was so successful that it prompted English Decca (London Records in the U.S.) to engage him to embark upon the complete Ring cycle, a prodigious undertaking that was not completed until...
...directorship of England's Royal Opera at Covent Garden in 1961. Still something of a diamond in the rough, the Generalmusikdirektor of the Munich and Frankfurt operas had trouble adjusting to the British predilection for requesting rather than demanding. Recalls John Culshaw, producer of the Solti Ring cycle: "With such a bundle of energy who drives himself so hard, you either give him total loyalty or you can't stand him." Among those who could not stand him at first were the members of the chorus, outraged that he refused to meet their delegates for discussions of working...
...also watches the stock market. That is not surprising, considering his wealth. Solti's combined earnings from concerts and recordings now probably exceed a quarter-million dollars a year. Royalties from his disks, spurred by the popularity of his Ring and Mahler cycles, have risen drastically in the past several years; he is comforted by the knowledge that if anything happened to him ("Look, I am 60 after all"), future royalties would certainly assure his young family a good income for at least the next 15 years. Yet signs of wealth are extremely hard to detect in his lifestyle...
Necessary and lawful, said Justice William Rehnquist, speaking for a five-man majority that chose to hew to a line of earlier decisions. Infiltration of a drug ring and "limited participation in [its] unlawful present practices is a recognized and permissible means of apprehension." And by extension so is the providing of "some item of value," since "an agent will not be taken into the confidence of the illegal entrepreneurs unless he has something of value to offer them." Treading a delicate line, Rehnquist ruled that "it is only when the Government's deception actually implants the criminal design...