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...order to let people in places far from regular opera companies sample a little Puccini or get a glimpse of Rossini's Cinderella. In characteristic down-home fashion, a TOT invitation for that work urges, "Come see Cinderella win out over her two grasping stepsisters. Come see her wed the handsome Prince." Notes the Houston Grand Opera's general director, David Gockley: "Opera tends to be a stilted, exotic, expensive kind of entertainment that rules out a great deal of the population." Gockley founded TOT in 1974 precisely to break down the high-falutin image that opera still...
Certainly everyone has heard the well-known adage "Lesley to bed, Wellesley to wed, and Radcliffe to talk." The Harvard men who most frequently use the taunt loudly bemoan the dearth of social life and attractive females at Harvard, and openly advertise their trysts with girls at other colleges and junior colleges. Accustomed to being called "Cliffie bitches," and frigid ones at that, Harvard women develop a not-surprising feeling of antagonism towards females from other colleges, whom they frequently see populating the Harvard House parties and dating Harvard...
...eight] children and husband of four battling sweet wives" was recently granted his long-contested divorce from sweet wife No. 4, Beverly Bentley, 50. Now he intends to marry Jazz Singer Carol Stevens, 50, with whom he lived from 1969 to 1974, then divorce her and wed former Model Morris Church, 31, his live-in companion of the past five years. But all for the most conventional of reasons: to legitimize Maggie, his nine-year-old daughter by Carol, and John Buffalo, his two-year-old son by Norris. "It is a bit disconcerting," Church admits. "But I understand...
...LOSE YOUR WALLET, $84; AGREE TO WED POLICEWOMAN; BATTERED CLERIC VOWS SUIT...
...also be that the world has never really shaken its revolutionary cast of mind since that final decade of the 18th century, when the French Reign of Terror wed murder to freedom. All the revolutions since have sealed the knot, if only theoretically, and somewhere in the modern mind may lie the automatic connection of assassination with something good and hopeful. That would be especially true of places where corrupt administrations are unseated at gunpoint. The assassin states in turn may depend on that connection, trusting that the elimination of ex-employees of defunct governments will be held akin...