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Houston Opera General Director David Gockley, 32, commissioned Bilby's Doll as his company's bow to the Bicentennial celebration. He has presented it well. Ming Cho Lee's skeletal sets have just the right blend of reality and make-believe. As Doll, Catherine Malfitano, 27, acts intelligently and sings with a clear lyric soprano; she is obviously going places. The rest of the cast is almost as good, notably Mezzo Joy Davidson (Hannah), Bass Thomas Paul (Bilby) and Tenor Jack Trussel (Shad...
Money Tenor. The production is geared to the opera's sublime disregard for stagecraft. The sets, also by Ming Cho Lee, are elegant suggestions of an isolated royal redoubt. By contrast, Peter J. Hall's costumes are as palpable as the clothes people wear in Flemish domestic paintings. The two elements blend in Sandro Sequi's direction, which amounts to little more than staging subtly shifting tableaux...
...first stab at photography during a twelve-day visit to China earlier this month. "I'm not a professional photographer, just a tourist," cautioned Julie, who still managed to click off 288 vacation snaps, including some respectable photos of Husband David atop a stone camel at the Ming Tombs. Lest Julie's amateur shutterbugging go awry, Chinese photographers accompanied the couple and presented them with a record of their trip. One other gift was included-a surprise 63rd birthday cake for Dad from the Shanghai Revolution ary Committee. "It said 'Happy Birthday, Mr. Nixon,' "disclosed Julie...
...chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking, interrupted a picnic at the Ming tombs outside the city to deliver a similar message to Chinese authorities. Next day, the Chinese returned the notes, signifying that they would not accept them...
...moment, the Pendleton refugees were those drawn from the social and intellectual elite. In one of the eight refugee compounds, there were no fewer than 50 medical doctors among the 900 inhabitants. Some had worked for U.S. firms that arranged their evacuation. Others, like Teacher Van Ming Minh, escaped with the help of women who were either married to or going steady with American officials...