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...dafter masterpieces of Western art, rich in overreach, Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is an obvious target for takeoffs of all sorts. The latest is Das Barbecu, which arrived last week off-Broadway after having been developed in several regional theater productions. Concentrating on the last opera, Gotterdammerung, the show is set in oil-rich Texas. Not a bad idea: like Valhalla, Texas was built by the iron whim of wealthy men. Jim Luigs, who wrote the book and lyrics, sees the gods as feuding, singing cowboys. Five exceedingly busy people manage to rush through 30 parts...
Standards and practices. It is the TV networks' courtly euphemism for their censorship departments. But it is a dafter delusion, on Broadcast Row or Wall Street or Pennsylvania Avenue or any other center of American power these days, to think that old-fashioned moral standards have much to do with today's lean, mean, rapier-clean business practices. Does a news organization, like the one in Broadcast News, employ too many talented men and women to keep its profits proud and its corporate raiders on hold? Then it will package the old reliables and promote the young presentables -- including...
...Fellows include Sang Moon Chang, a South Korean diplomat and Chief of Protocol, Raymond M. Dafter, a British journalist, Peter Lynn Sinai, an Indian diplomat, and Kifle Wodajo, who resigned in 1977 as Foreign Minister in the Provisional Military Government of Ethiopia...
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