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PUCCINI: Turandot. Eva Marton as Turandot, Jose Carreras as Calaf, Katia Ricciarelli as Liu. Lorin Maazel conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. MGM/UA Home Video, $79.95, stereo. Stage Director Harold Prince's stylishly barbaric 1983 production grimly captured the fairy tale's bloodthirsty, amoral ! quality with striking imagery: the gruesome severed head of the luckless Prince of Persia is held high on a stake, impassive masks hide the faces and emotions of Turandot and her retinue, and the ice princess makes her entrance in Act II down what must be the longest staircase in operatic history...
...current Chicago administration under mayor Harold Washington has not been developing the downtown areas sufficiently, leaving projects started during her term unfinished, Byrne said...
...Weston had decided to turn down the offer, Harvard was prepared to sell the acreage to two executives of Cambridge's General Computer Corporation, said Harold Hestnes '58, an attorney who lives in the affluent suburb...
...coordinated assault by Goldwater and Nunn began two weeks ago, when they holed up at Fort A.P. Hill in the Virginia countryside with a battery of experts and other Senators to discuss what had gone wrong with the military. Among those present: former Defense Secretaries Harold Brown and James Schlesinger and General David Jones, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Drawing from this discussion and two years of study, the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee will release a 600-page report this week calling for sweeping structural changes. The presidential commission chaired by Packard is expected...
...best plays of Eugene O'Neill and John Osborne, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter, wherever anger scalds and language blisters, the ghost of this strange, contradictory figure hovers in the wings. The demons he unleashed from his bedroom still wander through films and fiction today. As a young man, Strindberg wrote his manifesto: "No spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits." Here stands the classic confession of the artist as terrorist--not a nice man, but very much our contemporary...