Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near the southern Italian village of Seminara. After Luppino's seizure more than a month ago, his ft earlobe had been cut off and sent to his father with a note saying, "Unless you pay us 500 million lire, you'll get me head of your son, not just...
...WETA production crew is now deep into planning a second Music series -"the Son of Music," quips Sidlin. Their efforts could not have enjoyed better timing. Last week President Carter introduced into Congress a bill that would authorize more than $1 billion for such public television programming over the next five years...
MARRIED. Prince Ahmed-Fuad, 25, only son of Egypt's late King Farouk; and Student Dominique-France Picard, 29, who is writing her doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne on the psychology of women in The Thousand and One Nights; both for the first time; at Monaco's royal palace. The infant Fuad was King-for-a-day in Egypt after his father abdicated in 1952, but his parents fled for Europe that night with him, his three half sisters and an estimated $40 million aboard the royal yacht...
...life, Paul Cézanne experienced, perhaps more fully than any great artist since Michelangelo, the anxiety of Tantalus. The more he painted, the more he saw. The more he saw, the more manifold and unattainable truth became. "I must tell you," Cézanne wrote to his son six weeks before his death in the fall of 1906, "that as a painter I am becoming more clear-sighted before nature, but with me the realization of my sensations is always painful. I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I do not have the magnificent richness...
...squirming under the rule of a choleric god. Stormbound at sea while returning from the Trojan War, Idomeneo has begged Neptune for deliverance. In return, he will sacrifice the first person he encounters on shore. Straining the long arm of coincidence, Idomeneo steps on land-and meets his son Idamante. Such subject matter is a problem for 20th century audiences, but not the only one. Idomeneo is written in the style of opera seria, the stilted, ritualistic 18th century Italian counterpart to opera buffa. Even by the time Mozart came of age opera seria was under attack by the reformers...