Word: ling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cast members were poised in the middle of the audience with fog machines throughout the production, creating an interesting misty effect that enhanced the rather extra-terrestrial feel of the set. Several of the actors favored the spaceman look, with sliver shoes and ling-snouted plastic guns...
...standard of the accompaniment. The major roles are well sung, but, apart from Paul Lincoln's effectively goofy Papageno, the characters do not reveal the depth of psychological development implicit in Mozart's music. Oliver Worthington brings to the role of Tamino a lovely voice but little more, and Ling Ning Xu's Sarastro is dignified but unprepossessing. Worst of all, the Queen of the Night (Maria Tegzes), who has a voice that stands up to the test of her role's legendary difficulties, completely fails to command the first majestic and then terrifyingly desperate presence that the music indicates...
Among the technique's fans is top fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo, who was battling crippling arthritis before he sought the ministrations of Dr. Ling Sun Chu in New York City. "Before Dr. Chu, I lived on cortisone, Motrin, Advil and other pills that are bad for the liver," says Scavullo. Instead of "ending up in a wheelchair," he enthuses, "I was skiing and jumping horses." But beware acupuncturists -- or any healers -- who promise too much. "It's not a cure-all," says Chu, 83, who is also an M.D. Preferably acupuncture should be used in conjunction with Western medicine...
...Wiesel's moral authority that brought together Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela; Jimmy Carter and Francois Mitterrand; the authors Gunter Grass and Nadine Gordimer; Chai Ling and Li Lu, leaders of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square -- an astonishing collection of Nobel prizewinners, professors, rectors, saints. A man could not make his way through the SAS Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo without ricocheting off one paragon or another. Such saturations of virtue and celebrity gave me a jolt of anxiety: this is a perfect target for a bomb. But the choice of Oslo was canny. Norway has its immunities...
...further into line. Last month top officers of the People's Armed Police Force, who were criticized for failing to contain last year's upheavals, were replaced by army generals. Police officers were given doses of ideological indoctrination and loads of new antiriot equipment. Despite the shape-up, Chai Ling, 23, one of the three main leaders of the beleaguered democracy movement, managed to escape a nationwide dragnet. Chai turned up in Paris last week after ten months on the run within China...