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...that every time something makes us feel better, someone tells us why it's going to kill us? Just once I'd like to read about a person who ate an extra- rich Haagen-Dazs Triple Brownie Overload and had a good time doing it. I am sick of America's ridiculous obsession with how we look and what we eat. Living is a dangerous business, and simple pleasures should not be denied. I for one plan to enjoy my fettuccine Alfredo. It's safer than driving on the freeway...
...enthusiastic, excitable man, Del Monaco is a hands-on operative with his casts. At a piano rehearsal for Boccanegra, a chorister who stepped in front of the hero received a genial tongue lashing. The hapless soprano assigned to cover for Kiri Te Kanawa should she get sick had a bad day, going left when she should have gone right, up the stairs when she belonged on the ground, picking a prop flower off cue. At the beginning of the glorious duet in which the heroine learns that Boccanegra is her father, she began playfully fingering his shirt. For the umpteenth...
...continuing culture wars. In the year-end issue of the New Yorker, Croce wrote a piece, titled Discussing the Undiscussable, in which she declared that she would not review Still/Here-would not even see it-because she considered the show beyond the reach of criticism: "The cast members of Still/Here-the sick people whom Jones has signed up-have no choice other than to be sick." By presenting them on videotape, she reasoned, the choreographer has "crossed the line between theatre and reality. I can't review someone I feel sorry for or hopeless about." More generally, Croce decried "victim...
...years since Soviet soldiers entered the gate marked ARBEIT MACHT FREI and found some 7,000 starving, sick, pitiful survivors of Auschwitz. Young and gaunt then, aging and gray now, some of them returned last week to remember and to grieve. They walked, once again, down the street of death from the rail spur to the ramps where they saw the last of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. They shuddered before the gas chambers, peered into the wooden barracks, stood in silence amid the ruins of crematoria dynamited by the Nazis in a failed attempt to hide the evidence...
Goethals continued to teach at the Extension School until December, when he became sick and had to be admitted to the hospital...