Word: role
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Branigin, 65, may not have his rivals' national reputation, but he is perfectly cast in the role of defender against those he calls the "outlanders." A prosperous corporation lawyer before running for Governor in 1964, he won by 263,000 votes, the largest plurality in the state's history. He has since burnished his popularity by keeping spending down...
...though piccolo means small, the Piccolo Teatro Musicale stands for something very big in music today-a burgeoning interest in the baroque and post-baroque. Its leader, Renato Fasano, has played a pioneering role in bringing back Vivaldi and Corelli with his celebrated chamber ensemble Virtuosi di Roma. Now he is doing the same thing for the chamber operas of such composers as Paisiello, Cimarosa and Rossini...
...major asset: Bernstein had persuaded Mezzo Christa Ludwig to abandon her accustomed role as the youth Octavian for the lead role of the aging Marschallin, usually sung by a soprano. Ludwig's vocal prowess, womanly softness and pathos proved her a perfect choice. Said Bernstein: "She was so marvelous in the last scene that I cried watching her." And that was no Viennese exaggeration...
...crossexamination, she pressed Housing Director Elizabeth Meyers into conceding that if the LeClair family lived within the 50-mile commuting limit, the college would have had nothing to say about her housing arrangements. Linda also took issue with the college's right to act in a parental role. She received impressive support from a Barnard philosophy professor and two Columbia religious counselors. Arguing that Barnard's housing rules should be changed, Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman testified that they "cause a great deal of guilt because everybody breaks them...
...find nothing forbidden, and others because in the past too much has been forbidden. Over the whole group hovers the satanic, death-worshiping Freddy Thorne. He is a dentist by trade, but in fact he is a faithless St. Augustine indulging his "hyena appetite for dirty truths" in his role as Updike's designated "priest" to the tribe. "He thinks we're a magic circle of heads to keep the night out," says Angela Hanema. "He thinks we've made a church of one another...