Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. Battle got the job and her career snowballed. In 1976 she made her New York City Opera debut as Susanna. The following year, under Levine's aegis, she also bowed at the Met, in the small part of the Shepherd in Wagner's Tannhauser. By 1980 she was effortlessly hitting the high E's as Blonde in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Met. She had arrived...
...Main Street, Richard Wagner is cooking hot dogs and selling soda and cigarettes at his store, one of only two predating the boom. Wagner's great grandfather bought the small building in 1904, and the place is still prospering. "The more business, the more people are attracted and the more people, the more business. Only thing is we need some place to park. I talk about the old days--that's not so long ago (Wagner is only 44)--I knew everybody, the guy who ran the grocery store, the guy in the hardware store. I don't know anybody...
...British cheddar cheese pizza. Despite liberal offerings of two-for-one deals, monthly all-you-can-eat specials, and a new salad bar as incentives, Ruggles fails to draw droves of undergraduates. "The only guy I've ever seen eating there is the dummy in the window," observes Peter Wagner...
...Wagner was also the "low point skipper" of the regatta, meaning that he had both the lowest cumulative score and the best winning percentage of the 32 skippers...
...Although we didn't win, we're very pleased," Wagner said. "As sophomores, we're basically unknown, but this regatta gave us a lot of exposure nationwide...