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...four-city, eight-week U.S. tour, chose to lead off its engagement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week with Le Corsaire, a full-length ballet that very few Americans have ever seen. The kind of diversion that appealed to 19th century audiences in Paris or St. Petersburg, Le Corsaire now seems a genuine novelty, and, like the Kirov itself, it signaled that something fresh and curious can still be found in the post- glasnost era of big tours and cultural exchanges...
...Howard Shaffer of Harvard's Center for Addiction Studies figures that the proportion of American adults who bet at least occasionally has risen from 60% two decades ago to 80% now; other estimates range up to 88%. Nor is betting confined to adults: Henry Lesieur, a sociologist at St. John's University in New York City, found in a 1987 study that 86% of New Jersey high school students had gambled within the previous year and 32% gambled at least once a week, mostly on sports events. "At first I didn't believe the rates," says Lesieur. "We double-checked...
Despite the overall similarity, the Yamoussoukro structure is not really an enlarged replica of St. Peter's. Designed by architect Pierre Fakhoury, 45, an Ivory Coaster of Lebanese ancestry, the basilica has no paintings, statues, wooden paneling, tapestries or carvings. Instead, the building, buttressed by 60 interior columns, serves as a gallery for 36 immense, hand-blown stained- glass windows. In a brilliant conception, hundreds of colors splash across the nave in patterns that change throughout the day. "It is the church of light," says a mason at the site, "the light of God." The basilica, which is entered from...
...Like St. Peter's, which the Protestants of 16th century Europe scorned as a scandalous extravagance, Our Lady of Peace is being maligned as an unseemly expense in a country with an annual per capita income of $650. Demands a devout Ivory Coaster: "Why build a church for God while there are so many unemployed and near starving?" The regime counters that the church was paid for entirely by private funds provided by Houphouet-Boigny and his sister and was built on land owned by the President...
Rising higher than St. Peter's in Rome and costing as much as $200 million to build, the basilica of Our Lady of Peace is Ivory Coast President Houphouet- Boigny's gift to all Africa's Christians and to the Vatican. But in his impoverished homeland, critics charge him with unseemly extravagance, and Rome seems cool to the gesture...