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Conceived, at his request, as a starring vehicle for Spanish-born Supertenor Placido Domingo, Goya was given a handsome $1.1 million production by the Washington Opera before an opening-night audience in the Kennedy Center that included Queen Sophia of Spain and glitterati from two continents. It is being broadcast nationally this week on PBS. So far, so laudable...
...Sure. Didn't you hear the one the President told on his radio broadcast last week? The one about the welfare queen and the seven dwarfs...
ACCORDING TO a recent Time article, the '80s may well go down in literary history as the decade of the mystery novel. P.D. James, the reigning queen of fictional murder and intrigue, has recently published A Taste for Death, an impeccably British sleuth story that will help that prediction come true...
Along with Enrile, Ramos spearheaded the weekend rebellion that toppled former President Ferdinand Marcos last February. He took action after the Philippine newspaper Business Day quoted "high-level" military sources as saying that disaffected military men planned an operation, code-named "God Save the Queen," to purge the Aquino government of "left-leaning elements" while retaining Aquino as President. The coup was to take place before the Feb. 2 referendum...
Hong Kong is to revert to Chinese rule in 1997. China and Britain have promised that the colony's economic and political vitality will be preserved. Some residents are suspicious. Anxiety about the future could be seen at the races, where the Queen noted that a horse named 1997 was in the running...