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...critic Robert Hughes also excelled when he was awarded the first prize for literature in the Olimpiada Cultural. In a ceremony at the Palacio | de la Zarzuela, Hughes was honored by the government of Catalonia for his book Barcelona. The prize, which was presented by King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain, included a bronze Miro trophy...
...degree withdrawn from his sons. The boys palpably adore their mother, who lavishes time and affection on them. Was the Morton book not the impetuous blowout it seems to be but a prelude to divorce? In her more florid moments, Diana has said she may never be Queen. (A current story around London is that if Elizabeth II lives another 20 years, Charles may stand aside in favor of William.) But Diana has reportedly told the Queen she would never let her down, and her mother-in-law's commands are the only ones she follows unfailingly. The late Earl...
...SCANDAL. As the virtual queen of the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1984 to 1987, Deborah Gore Dean administered programs intended for the poor to favor well-connected real estate developers and Republican consultants. Broadening a two-count indictment issued against her in April, a federal grand jury indicted Dean, 37, on 13 criminal charges of fraud, perjury and conspiracy. The indictment accused her of using her position to dispatch $230,000 in HUD funds to John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's Attorney General...
...ranks at the local Masonic temple. Eve, a former singer at Catskill resorts, raises her three daughters and son on the Don't-let-Daddy-know principle. The children say there were also things their mother "did not want to see or hear or know" and dub her "the Queen of Denial...
What he has brought to the Metropolitan amounts to a portrait of a company embarking on a cultural shift. Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov are first-rate productions that offer what opera lovers want to hear: Russian classics performed with great depth of detail -- in orchestration, diction and idiomatic style. The Kirov embodies the Russian tradition of opera, which is very different from the Western one. As the maestro says, "The chorus and the orchestra are the hero. The chorus is < stronger than any star, and it must be a single personality divided into...