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...discernible in his genealogy. His paternal grandfather was a printer's proofreader; his maternal grandfather was a cabinetmaker. This heritage, suggests the writer, must account for his tongue-and-groove plots and for a lifelong addiction to the printed word. The child's first polysyllabic effort was "Me-di-ter-ra-ne-an," a favorite locale for later fictions...
...terrorist Red Army Faction had marked him for death. The director of research and technology at Siemens, the West German electronics giant, he had hired security guards, barred windows and installed alarms at his villa in Strasslach, south of Munich. Last week Beckurts, 56, lost his battle against ter rorism. On his way to work, Beckurts and the driver of his gray BMW limousine were killed 875 yards from his home when a hidden roadside bomb blew the vehicle across the road and into a fence. A letter filled with Marxist jargon was found near the blast, and identified those...
Indeed they do. Whether she sports Despina's serving-girl mufti in Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, is decked out in the rococo raiment of Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, or sweeps glamorously onto a concert stage dressed in one of her custom-made Rouben Ter-Arutunian gowns, it is impossible to imagine Battle's ever taking a letter or raising a ruler again. She is an ethereal Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, a sparkling Zerbinetta in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and a beguiling Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which she will sing...
Before an audience Battle projects a captivating, gentle beauty. She is the undisputed best-dressed concert performer in the business, appearing on stage adorned in gowns created by her friend Ter-Arutunian, who is better known as a designer of opera, ballet and theater costumes and sets. For a PBS special on Duke Ellington he fashioned a sinuous red number that suited the song Creole Love Call; for her Carnegie Hall performance of Semele, based on a mythological subject, he produced a one-shoulder dress that suggested a Grecian column. "In a live performance, who doesn't listen with their...
...Isles dominated the first Von Bulow trial by her testimony, last week she dominated the second by her absence. The socialite left the country last win ter, purportedly to visit her mother in Ireland, and has not been seen since. Judge Grande ruled that the Rhode Island prosecutors failed to mount the sufficiently "diligent" search required before testimony from an absent witness can be used. Rhode Island State Police Detective John F. Reise told the court that he had attempted to locate Isles through New York magazine Theater Critic John Simon, with whom she is said to maintain a close...