Word: viewpoints
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...begins stripping his bride, who throws back her head in ecstasy. On opening night, the sequence was loudly booed by another member of opera's aristocracy, former diva Licia Albanese, who in Mario's day played Butterfly as an elegant geisha. Albanese "looks at the opera from the moral viewpoint of the '40s," shrugs Del Monaco. "But Pinkerton was an ugly American who was drunk and excited...
Last year's co-chairs, on their election, announced that the once-liberal organization would no longer represent that viewpoint...
...viewpoint: couldn't have happened on a more appropriate date...
...relief to the general audience. Now you didn't need to know who Gyges and Candaules were, and which one had the wife whose silky white backside was the real pretext for Gerome's painting in the 1859 Salon. It no longer mattered, at least from the viewpoint of painting, who won the Battle of Gaugamela, or which model was standing in for Phryne and which for Aspasia. In due course, movies like Spartacus and The Ten Commandments would satisfy the need once felt for Bible scenes, Greek agoras and Roman battles. What was left to painting was the here...
Even fringe candidates for office must be invited to participate in political debates on public TV or be told -- in "viewpoint-neutral" terms why not -- the Supreme Court said today in letting stand a lower court decision. The rationale for denying an invitation would have to satisfy an extremely high standard, because the lower court ruled that appearing on public TV was a candidate's First Amendment right. The 1992 case originated in Arkansas, when the Arkansas Educational Television Commission didn't invite Ralph Forbes, an independent U.S. House candidate, to a debate. Forbes sued; his lawsuit was first dismissed...