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Since last September, when Act I, Scene B startled Rotterdam, the CIVIL warS has been unfolding in impressive national installments. The German module, which comprises parts of the opera's first, third and fourth acts, was unveiled in January to popular acclaim in Cologne. It was followed in March by Act V, with music by Glass, in Rome. Late last month the U.S. made its contribution to Wilson's epic with the premiere in Minneapolis of the Knee Plays, crucial connecting episodes tinged with delicate orientalism that link the vast work's 15 scenes. All the sections...
...first troubling sign appeared just over a year ago. A small groin pull led to a disappointing fourth in the World Cross Country Championships in Great Britain. A month later he finished fifth in the Rotterdam Marathon. His nadir came in August at the World Track and Field Championships in Helsinki. Fighting off bronchitis, he finished last in the 10,000 meters. The gritty and fiercely proud runner could hardly recognize himself. "I know that wasn't me out there," he said. Salazar took two weeks off, the first holiday he had allowed himself since he was 13. Bewildered...
...tousle-haired politician from Rotterdam has not always commanded such high expectations. A former Minister of Economics and millionaire businessman. Lubbers earned a reputation in his early years in politics as a colorless, woolly-mouthed party functionary. But when Prime Minister Andreas van Agt resigned in the fall of 1982 for health reasons, he surprised many by naming Lubbers his successor. The new leader inherited a collapsing economy. Recession-pinched tax revenues were being drained by the most bountiful social welfare system south of Sweden, dispensing such goodies as 80%-of-salary unemployment benefits and $250 monthly stipends for school...
...failing to show up at a tournament last May. Guillermo Vilas, an Argentine who lives like a prince ($932,150 official winnings last year) and sometimes dates princesses, was suspended one year and fined $20,000 for accepting appearance money to play in a tournament in Rotterdam, The Netherlands...
...refusal to participate in a scheduled tournament last month. The punishment was stiff, but nowhere near as harsh as the one levied last week against Argentine Gulilermo Vilas, 31, who drew a year's suspension for accepting money simply to show up for a tournament in Rotterdam...