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...thing that makes these musicals so horrendous is that, despite their circus-like choreography, childishly spectacular special effects, ostentatious costumes and sets, scores worthy of John Williams and embarrassingly inane lyrics, people shell out upwards of 50 bucks a ticket and get all gussied up to go see them. For some reason that I fail to comprehend, these events get away with masquerading as high culture. In this video age, does anything that appears in a theater automatically deserve that appellation? Even someone dressed up as a cat named Rum Tum Tiger...
Only a few weeks after the backstage sturm und drang of the Kathleen Battle affair, the Metropolitan Opera put an enthralling tempest where it belongs -- before an audience. The occasion was a spectacular new production of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece Otello, in which astute direction, dazzling conducting and a first-rate cast led by Placido Domingo all combined to create a profound operatic experience...
...shells came during a "stalemate" in the process, and the attack might "have an accelerating effect upon the British government." Sinn Fein and the I.R.A. still want what they call "clarifications" from Britain before joining any talks. Until that happens, says Adams, "every so often there will be something spectacular to remind the world" that the conflict continues to boil...
...things I can say with absolute confidence: One, the reasons for the spectacular fall of companies like IBM are complex and involve strategic decisions by top people in government and industry. And two, layoffs, cutbacks and economic insecurity strongly correlate with soaring crime, wife-battering, substance abuse and "ethnic" tension...
...Madison. Though the request does not charge the Clintons with wrongdoing, it names them as possible beneficiaries of illegal Madison transactions. For a regulatory body to disclose such a matter to any of the parties involved is a considerable departure from standard practice, to say nothing of a spectacular instance of bad political judgment...