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...keeping her composure on the tennis court. You wouldn't know it from her performance in last week's Australian Open, though: despite two double faults in the very first game, the fourth-seeded Pierce, 20, went on to a 6-3, 6-2 win in the final, beating Spain's Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 23, the woman who denied Pierce a victory in the French Open last year. "I just haven't realized what has happened yet. I'm still reeling from it," said Pierce on winning her first Grand Slam title in a career marred by family problems...
This utter fluency in the art may account for Del Monaco's range. As a young director in small German cities like Ulm and Dortmund, he was radical; he set a Butterfly in Saigon (long before Miss Saigon) and a Forza del Destino in Spain during the Civil War. But he is best known for productions that are traditional in concept, modern in their psychological astuteness and, occasionally, rude in their action. At the climax of the love duet in the Met's Butterfly, Pinkerton begins stripping his bride, who throws back her head in ecstasy. On opening night...
...devaluation of the peso was developing into something more serious: a general skittishness about markets in countries embracing tariff cutting, deregulation and the sale of state-owned assets on the road to modernization. The new, skeptical mood was in fact spreading beyond the Third World to affect countries like Spain, Italy and Sweden, which have seen their currencies come under heavy pressure since the Mexican crisis broke...
...Mexico law degree Alzati claimed to hold did not exist; in Mexico City. Although Alzati studied at both schools, he never wrote a dissertation or thesis and thus did not earn degrees. ASSASSINATED. GREGORIO ORDONEZ, 36, deputy mayor of the Basque city of San Sebastian and regional leader of Spain's opposition Popular Party; shot in the head by an unknown assailant as he was lunching. Ordonez, an outspoken critic of the Basque terrorist group eta, had repeatedly refused police protection despite death threats. DIED. JAMES GRANT, 72, impassioned director of UNICEF since 1980; of cancer, two days after resigning...
...letters, Torga was a liberal socialist, atheist and nonconformist. He spent six months in the dungeons of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar at the request of Francisco Franco, who was excoriated in Torga's A Criacao do Mundo (1939), which contained a description of post-civil war Spain. In 1941 Torga began his magnum opus Diario, 16 volumes of reflections on his life and times. ``I fought against age, I fought against men, I fought against God, I fought against myself,'' he wrote. ``I have one consolation: although defeated, I was able to reach the end of the adventure...