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Tippett's score-dense, compact, intricate-rumbles darkly with violence and glistens with unexpected color. The choral scenes capture the shout of the mob. The solo lines sometimes soar in daring melismas, sometimes settle into softly swooping lyricism...
Stinking buses, their passengers gaunt, pale and weary, jam the crowded streets. Drivers shout at one another and honk their horns as they turn the city's few escape routes into ribbons of steel. Smog smarts the eyes and chokes the senses. The scene is Athens at rush hour. The city of Plato and Pericles is in a sorry state of affairs, built without a plan, lacking even adequate sewerage and sanitation facilities, hemmed in by mountains and the sea, its 135 sq. mi. crammed with 3.7 million people. Even Athens' ruins are in ruin: sulfur dioxide eats...
Ford has vehemently denied all the charges, and the suit has had little visible support from the firm's other 335,400 stockholders. At the annual meeting last year, Cohn attempted to shout accusations at Ford, but was frequently booed by other shareholders, many of them present or former company employees...
With Amtrak's annual deficit expected to climb to $1 billion or more by 1985, the austerity-minded lawmakers are in no mood to shout down a new Administration plan that will sharply cut both the cost and the size of the passenger train network. Transportation Secretary Brock Adams would eliminate 12,000 lightly traveled miles of Amtrak's 27,500-mile network, mostly in the South and West. Five states (Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Vermont and Alabama) would lose all passenger train services. But Adams claims that the summed Amtrak could still serve 91% of its present customers...
Serge and Nicole's incest in itself isn't the main theme. It's just an ironic twist that the only people who have a fulfilling love must break the most rigid taboo of society to share it. When Serge shouts through tears, "Poppa, I love you, even though no one's ever told you that because it's the kind of thing you don't shout!" we are closer to the real heart of the play...