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Requiring public prayer [NATION, Sept. 24] in this country is like asking the members of the United Nations to stand and sing the national anthem of one country...
...optimism is understandable. Buscetta's decision to break with the Mafia has given the police voluminous information and may encourage others to sing as well. It has also provided other would-be Mafia renegades with a model and given law enforcement a major psychological boost. Says Giuliani: "This is the type of work where you don't get many victories. It's enormously important as an example that someone at a very high level has broken his silence...
...degradation and crime.") Faded photographs are particularly difficult to reject (this one has them roller-skating in Central Park during the Depression), as are imperfect potteries, one's own juvenilia. Each visit becomes a sort of "This Was Our Life" program, and not uncomfortably so. Afterward, the wires sing between siblings...
Since the death of Wolfgang Windgassen in 1974, Wagnerites have bewailed the dearth of stalwart voices to tackle parts like Lohengrin, Tristan and Siegfried. Although he has said that he would some day like to sing Parsifal and perhaps Tristan, Domingo's natural territory is the lyric roles of Italian and French opera. It is too much to expect him to become a true Heldentenor: he lacks the sheer force to surge over Wagner's complex orchestral writing, his German diction is heavily Latinized, and his phrasing belongs to the Mediterranean, not the Teutonic, school...
...basically comics: hip new models of the vaudeville Negro. "I don't think the country is ready for black leading men," Murphy declares. "White guys won't accept their ladies' going nuts over a black actor." Notes Playwright Fuller: "Americans trust black people when we sing, dance or tell jokes. It's when we stop laughing that people get itchy." So starring roles for blacks lean toward the comic and away from the romantic, which spells hard times for serious actors and serious films. Says Jewison: "There has to be room for films that...