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Now Tippett's newest opera, The Ice Break, has been given its first U.S. performances by the Opera Company of Boston (after a world premiere in 1977 at Covent Garden). Fittingly, the work is a masterly summation-not of conclusions, but of a continuing quest.
Alas, poor Otto! His convert was blown. Sheraton and Prial identified the reclusive Paul Bocuse of the Poconos as one "Allen Lieb." (Actually, he spells it Alan.) As for the dishes he served these wisepersons from the city, Sheraton's comments ranged from "passable" to "truly awful," with a...
The statistics of destruction were appalling. More than 35,000 houses were demolished in the shelling, which soon spread from the city to the hills north of Beirut. The U.S. Embassy was hit by shells, and two Marine guards were wounded. Some two-thirds of the 600,000 Christian residents...
Arthur Rex features hard-boiled knights in a pseudo-Arthurian landscape, and the clash of styles has the discordant ring of crossed lances at a joust. His heroes talk obsessively of "paps" and "mammets" (not, as Berger supposes, a variant of mammaries, but a medieval reference to Muhammad). The labored...
Before Labor Contractor Juan Corona was convicted in 1973 for one of the greatest mass murders in memory-hacking and bludgeoning to death 25 itinerant farm workers around the sun-baked orchards of Yuba City. Calif.-his lawyer tried a stunning tactic. Defense Attorney Richard Hawk. 45. offered hardly any...