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...Francisco Opera specializes in movie-into-opera custom conversion jobs designed to tantalize non-operagoers who don't know Rigoletto from rigatoni. Two years ago, it was A Streetcar Named Desire, with superstar soprano Renee Fleming as Blanche Dubois; now it's Dead Man Walking, with superstar mezzo Susan Graham as Sister Helen Prejean, the spiritual adviser who brings salvation to a death-row inmate, the role for which Susan Sarandon won an Academy Award. The score is by Jake Heggie, a gifted purveyor of bittersweet art songs, and the libretto is by playwright-opera buff Terrence McNally (The Lisbon...
Next time you have to wait six weeks for the kitchen door or lawn furniture you ordered, think of Gene Kirila. He would have you order your custom whatever at a store register, then direct you to drive around back, where--Presto! Out it would pop from a portable minifactory...
...took months of hair-pulling setbacks, but they figured out how to digitally control the chemicals, water pressure and the mold itself, and began fabricating larger and larger products, from pipe to custom boat hulls. The average cost to tool a mold: a mere $25,000, nearly a 99% cost reduction. "Once we had the floating mold," says McCollum, recalling their excitement, "we wanted a whole factory...
...stylist gave me a red turtleneck, a custom-made black corduroy suit and boots whose toes actually came to a point. I wondered what purpose these pictures would serve. Would a reader really think, If Joel Stein is wearing an $800 turtleneck and a $5,000 corduroy suit, then I'd better get me some...
When Morocco's new king, Mohammed VI [WORLD, June 26], was asked if he was satisfied with U.S. economic support, he answered, "Absolutely not." Well, Mo, first you could fly coach, then buy a Saturn instead of driving that customized Mercedes, and shop at the Men's Wearhouse instead of a custom tailor. This is what hardworking Americans do to save money. Petty despots like the King have ripped off the American taxpayer long enough. It's time we told our politicians to stop squandering our tax dollars on excessive foreign aid to pathetic little men. The arrogance! VIN SAVINO...