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Animalen, however, was not the best choice to inaugurate the Ordway operatically, even though it reflects both the region's Scandinavian ethnic background and the Minnesota Opera's long-standing commitment to new works. More a politically pacifist, musically jejune cabaret than an opera, it concerns a convention of animals that are worried about the nuclear arms race. They lecture representatives from the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the importance of avoiding war, and later turn up at a peace conference in Vienna. There a romance between a Las Vegas-type American entertainer and a Soviet chanteuse ends...
...Arctic Circle. "The house quivered, windows rattled, and my three dogs started barking." What Sotkajarvi apparently saw in the early afternoon of Dec. 28 was a runaway cruise missile fired from either a submarine or a ship during Soviet naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea, northeast of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norwegian radar tracked the supersonic object as it crossed the Pasvik River on the Soviet-Norwegian border; it headed southwest toward Lake Inari in Finland, where it disappeared...
...Bauhaus stars Breuer and Mart Stam had established using tubular steel in the '20s. The cantilever is springy, like an athlete's crouch. Indeed, Aalto's cantilevered chairs have a cheerfully anthropomorphic profile. His most splendid variations on the theme also seem the most characteristically Scandinavian: after he had tried seats and backs of plain plywood and boxy upholstery, Aalto designed birch frames crisscrossed with black linen webbing. The effect is at once urbane and countrified, not unlike the designer himself...
...really does seem more in his element out West; he smiles easily, jokes and jives with his campaign entourage more comfortably. Besides, his reorganized staff has acquired greater discipline and savvy, functioning smoothly despite a missed May paycheck. Mondale's campaign staff, once a model of well-funded Scandinavian efficiency, is fraying. The payroll has been cut by 30% this month. Last week, for the first time this year, Mondale and his aides passed up their expensive charter jet to fly Republic Airlines east from Los Angeles...
...Scandinavian countries fought off the Soviets and East Germans pretty well in the Nordic sports. Long and lean...