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Houston has funding for four more years of outdoor productions, though no operas have been set yet. Next January the stage will be moved indoors for a production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, starring Frederica von Stade. Several other opera houses have expressed interest in this new approach, and no doubt similar stages will soon be under construction. But the best thing about Houston's contemporary Carmen is not so much the modular stage, impressive though it is, as what Assaf has done with it. How do you get twentysomethings to fall for opera? The answer...
...name pretty throughout the period when her reputation got ugly: World War II. This is when her anti-Semitism, homophobia (even though she herself dabbled in bisexuality) and other base inclinations emerged. She responded to the war by shutting down her fashion business and hooking up with Hans Gunther von Dincklage, a Nazi officer whose favors included permission to reside in her beloved Ritz Hotel. Years later, in 1954, when she decided to make a comeback, her name still had "disgraced" attached...
November also sees the National Organization for Women demand the resignation of Dean of Freshmen F. Skiddy Von Slade '38, who had written a letter opposing the admission of more women into the University...
...Often women's lack of confidence to eat without shame rests in an inability to eat comfortably around men," Von Kohorn said. "By constructing this admittedly false environment of women only, we hope to inspire a form of solidarity among women that rarely exists around eating...
...Von Kohorn said organizers recognize that eating disorders affect men as well as women, but felt the Eat-In would be more effective if it were limited to women only...