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...question of how to refresh opera's inherited visual cliches occupies every thinking director these days, especially when the genre is as terminal as bel canto: a collection of pretty tunes hung on the dusty skeleton of a story. Zambello's solution may be vilified in tartan-loving, canary-fancying quarters: unlike traditional stagings of Lucia, this one includes no kilts, no Scotsmen, no mountain greenery of any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad, Bad and Dangerous | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

This summer I was working as a freelance writer and I contributed a piece to an edition of The Crimson sent home to the class of 1996. The section, called "My First Year," intends to breathe life into the skeleton images provoked by admissions guides and brief visits to campus. It's also a chance for senior editors play Wise Person, reflecting on our trials to the as of yet uninitiated...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Endpaper | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

This summer I was working as a freelance winter and I contributed a piece to an edition of The Crimson sent home to the class of 1996. The section, called "My First Year," intends to breathe life into the skeleton images provoked by admissions guides and brief visits to campus. It's also a chance for senior editors play Wise Person, reflecting on our trails to the as of yet uninitiated...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Writing for Living | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

...excavation also uncovered a warehouse, an accounting office and a complete male skeleton with a crushed skull...

Author: By Emily J. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Dig Explores Israeli Coast | 10/7/1992 | See Source »

...year after unearthing nine skeletons in Siberia, scientists identified the remains of Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his wife Alexandra, who were executed 74 years ago by a Bolshevik firing squad. A third skeleton was identified as that of the royal family's doctor, and the other six bodies, thought to be some of the monarchs' children and servants, will be identified by the end of the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What About Anastasia? | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

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