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Handel's Messiah is sung every year at the House, and Dunster Opera was started under their tenure. For each opera production, the Liems give up part of their residence for rehearsal and backstage space, for three weeks...
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...they are in this state today," says Scher, "it leaves the politicians with little to do but mud wrestle at times like this, not for the sake of their party causes but for the sake of blind, individual ambition." America, you've tuned in to Tallahassee!, a TV soap opera about rich political white people behaving badly...
...costly withdrawals. It was, in the words of CBS and CNN election consultant Warren Mitofsky, "embarrassing as hell." Yet it also underscored TV's tremendous power, as the networks' blunders led to Al Gore's concession takeback. And as that wild night set up an acrimonious Florida soap opera played out for the cameras, it revealed the media's dual, contradictory roles: national laughingstock and de facto fourth branch of government...
...pessimist/cynic opts for the tiger, I suppose. The optimist/romantic votes for the lady. I have a sappy, soap opera kind of mind, I regret to report. I decided immediately that the princess would have done the sweet and selfless thing, and, like Rick Blaine sending Ilsa Lund off with Victor Lazlo on the Lisbon plane at the end of "Casablanca," would have sacrificed her own happiness, swallowed her regret, and withdrawn in a fog of nobility...