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...reau Ring is perhaps even more effective on TV than in the opera house. What is sacrificed in scenic grandeur, such as the looming pile that is Valhalla or Hunding's chilly glass-paned palace, is gained in unorthodox but expressive detail that may be overlooked in the theater. In Wotan's sorrowfully reflective second-act monologue in Die Walküre, Bass-Baritone Donald McIntyre stands before a full-length mirror; tearing off the patch that covers his lost eye, Wotan searches for his soul and finds only an emptiness that foreshadows the twilight of the gods...
...some time, then, the proctor put all the blue books in order in a big pile at the front of the room, cross checked them with the attendance list for the exam, and performed all the various other administrative duties that proctors must perform at the end of an exam Meanwhile, the lone student scrawled away in his dark corner...
...Good," said the student, and he ran over to the huge pile of exams on the front desk, threw his blue book into the middle of the mess, and dashed out of the room...
...Post Office, Washington, D.C. Snatched from the bulldozers, this imposing, romanesque pile of granite on Pennsylvania Avenue has been recycled by Arthur Cotton Moore Associates, architects, to house a festive market for tourists and offices for the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities and others...
...children: nine of his own, plus the thousands of Stevensonians who fell in love with more than a dozen previous books. For The Baby Uggs Are Hatching (Greenwillow; $9.50) he adds a dash of Lear to Jack Prelutsky's hilarious nonsense verse about the Sneepies ("... lying in a pile,/ are still and silent all the while./ They stay beside my underwear .../ I wonder why they like it there."), the Smasheroo, the Dreary Dreeze, the Flotterzott and other beings unmentioned by zoologists but familiar to any child in a darkened room...