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...said that he was unemployed and known as a radical leftist. The fact that Moon had lived in Japan ignited lingering Korean hostility toward the Japanese; resentment became more pronounced when it was learned that a Japanese woman had helped Moon obtain the fraudulent passport. In an attempt to patch up deteriorating Korean-Japanese relations, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka announced that he would attend, Mrs. Park's funeral early this week...
David Rounds' Mercutio just doesn't cut the mustard. I suppose it's all right for him to be half-sighted, with a black patch over one eye. But he must not talk at half speed; after all, he "will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month." Yet Rounds delivers his delicate and dazzling "Queen Mab" aria in a leaden manner, with lots of pauses. Vivace has become andante. I've said before--and I repeat--that the best guide here is the Queen Mab vocal scherzetto and orchestral scherzo from Berlioz's symphony...
...began to hate television. His preppie roommate had an obsession with T.V.--watching the late movie every night, usually stoned. He could not sleep; no matter how low the preppie kept the volume, the monotonal voice drifted effortlessly into his room, settled down like a farmer guarding his melon patch...
...Francisco Library for an open seminar on writing. It was pitiful. There were all these old people who had been published once, years ago, and never had anything published since. The chairman of the group had been mugged the night before. His face was badly bruised, a patch covered his swollen eye, and his arm was slashed. I wouldn't have found out about his arm if he hadn't lifted up the bandage to show everybody the 27 stitches. I left before the meeting started...
Despite these setbacks, however, Europe's planemakers are at last seeing a patch or two of blue sky. Last week the wide-bodied A300B airbus, made by a Paris-based multinational consortium called Airbus Industrie, went into commercial service on Air France between Paris and London. This week the ambitious MRCA (multirole combat aircraft), a joint project of Britain, West Germany and Italy, is scheduled to make its maiden flight in the skies above Munich. Both promise to offer stiff competition for American planemakers...