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...Colin Davis. Boston's indefatigable Sarah Caldwell staged it as two operas last year. But the Metropolitan Opera studiously avoided Les Troyens, largely because former General Manager Sir Rudolf Bing considered it a bore. Last week the big day-or rather the long night-finally arrived. The essentially uncut performance lasted just under five hours, including two 30-minute intermissions during which, precedent of precedents, ham sandwiches were sold (for $1.25) to the tired and hungry in the grand tier...
Wholesale prices of large, uncut African diamonds have increased more than 50% since just before the dollar was first devalued 18 months ago. In the past five weeks alone, prices have gone up 10%. The value of other precious stones have had similar increases. At the retail level, heavy gold bracelets have risen no less than 100% and slim gold bands some 67% in the past year. A major reason is that prices of free-market gold have almost doubled since mid-1972, to $120 or more an ounce...
...variation. He is Edward Shoebridge, a saturnine hunter, a falconer who feels pollution and plastic closing in and coldly uses crime to raise the money to escape to some rustic Scandinavian fortress. His business is kidnaping high political figures in impeccable style. He takes his ransom in uncut diamonds...
...complicated the ancestry of the modern playing card was-or how various and fine in craftsmanship. Discovering this is one of the pleasures of the Yale University Library's current show in New Haven, The Art of the Playing Card-a selection from more than 3,000 packs, uncut sheets and card printers' woodblocks acquired by the late Melbert and Mary Gary, and willed to Yale...
...intolerable not to have read Proust, I appropriated this edition, and installed it in a place of prominence on my own shelves. There it was to reside until shame prompted me to take up this voluminious chore. On opening volume I. I discovered that the pages were uncut...