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Before Puccini's La Rondine opened at the New York City Opera this season, all the signs pointed to a disaster. The work was little known, and had been dismissed by earlier generations as inconsequential. The intended conductor, C. William Harwood, died unexpectedly last April at the age of...
In the 1970s, liberals and conservatives alike exaggerated what arms control could accomplish, loading it down with burdens of hope it could not bear or blame it did not deserve, and expecting it to work wonders by itself...Arms control is not a substitute for defense. It is defense conducted...
And what music. Certainly not the most delicate of operas, Carmen roars on for two and a half hours in a mixture of traditional belle canto and lilting Spanish melodies. For those uninitiated into opera, Carmen is a perfect way to begin. Because it relies on a few key songs...
Standing awkwardly behind a microphone in a new suit and tie, he looked like a timid substitute teacher or possibly a computer whiz before a job interview -anything but what he really was: the uncompromising leader of Nicaragua's pro-Marxist Sandinista regime. Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, who is...
In Weissman's absence, substitute tailback Lorenzo Chambers had 101 yards rushing on 20 carries.