Word: sightings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operagoers moved through the gala ritual of the Metropolitan's opening night last week, they were met with an unfamiliar sight. Television lights glared down on the huge Chagall murals and curving marble staircases. Cameras panned the red-carpeted lobby. On the Grand Tier balcony, presumably sophisticated first-nighters pressed around to gawk at Met Tour Director Francis Robinson's TelePrompTer as he beamed at interviewees. The occasion was a live broadcast to public television's 282 U.S. stations, as well as to Canada and Mexico. "It's like a political convention," complained one elegant buff...
Everything was going according to plan, with Murphy and Adam Dixon showing the way and the rest of the Herd following not far from the front, as they came over a slight rise and crossed over the bridge that led into the hilly second mile, disappearing from sight...
...Hampshire primary on Feb. 26 and the Massachusetts primary on March 4, so Carter aides are concentrating their efforts on the next big test, the Florida primary on March 11. Says a top Carter aide: "If Kennedy beats us there-and it's a damn sight easier to beat us there than elsewhere in the South -he's got the big ring to grab...
...Modena in north-central Italy. Sometimes Pavarotti will make the supreme sacrifice, receiving fans for hours even when he knows the last restaurant in town is closing. In San Francisco, he knew that a giant steak awaited him at the postperformance ball, so he volubly welcomed everyone in sight. Especially the women. A true Italian male, he makes it a point of honor to kiss every female in the same room with him. Cheerful propositions are the staple of ins small talk ("Just kidding," he reassures husbands and boyfriends, then adds quickly to the women: "See you later...
...dread ordeal of a diet. He is currently forbidden to drink wine, and his most opulent meal is zuchini, rice and 250 grams (about half a pound) of meat or fish cooked with a few drops of oil. More tragic than any scene he plays onstage is the sight of a dieting Pavarotti at a dinner party, surrounded by gorging guests as he disconsolately sips soda water or diet cola...