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Given the continuing influx of Asian performers, Ozawa's perspective is one worth heeding. "Western music is like the sun," he says. "All over the world, the sunset is different, but the beauty is the same. Maybe there is a way to make a marriage between this Oriental blood and Western music...
Perhaps it is the high proportion of walking corpses, dressed like extras from Sunset Boulevard, that makes everyone else in the audience look ill, too. The buckets o' blood spilled during a typical opera must be a contributing factor. And I've heard it said that opera is a slow-acting poison to red-blooded Americans. Whatever the reason, to visit the opera is to see an audience and an art form on its last legs...
...wasteland by repressive Soviet invaders, Amerika will undoubtedly provide support for conservatives who advocate constant vigilance against the Soviet threat. Indeed, the project was spurred by complaints about ABC's controversial antinuclear drama The Day After. In a 1983 newspaper column, Author and Critic Ben Stein (The View from Sunset Boulevard) proposed that to balance that film's allegedly liberal tilt the network ought to make a movie about what life in the U.S. would be like under a Soviet regime. Brandon Stoddard, then head of ABC movies and mini-series and now programming chief, hired Wrye to develop...
...brief cease-fire cast an eerie silence over the plane as it winged like a giant silver bird into the firy glow of the North American sunset. The atmosphere grew oddly contemplative...
Some hard-line factions are not interested in deeds or words. They are apparently convinced that Gorbachev should hunker down and wait until Reagan gallops off into the sunset. "Many in the leadership believe (a second summit) is not in the Soviet interest," says a Western diplomat. "Many here believe it is impossible to do business with Reagan...