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...been denounced on the floor of the Oklahoma legislature, been called "bastard" by state officials and a "lying s.o.b." by a newspaper publisher. A fellow editor once threatened to "slap his teeth out," while another stormed that he was not fit to lick boots. To such aspersions "Frosty" Troy retorts: "I'm a zealot." Then he returns to making more enemies in his job as the publisher, editor and principal reporter of the Oklahoma Observer (circ. 4,164), a twice-monthly tabloid that hits wealthy and powerful Sooners like a dust storm. Says Ed Hardy, press secretary to Oklahoma...
Euripedes' Helen is a fairy tale built on the story of the bard Steischorus. He claimed that not Helen, but Helen's wraith, had gone to Troy, while she herself remained in Egypt until her ship-wrecked husband Menelaus, King of Sparta, finally arrived and found her there 15 years later...
...since the early '40s has roller skating enjoyed such a boom: an estimated 18 million teen-agers and young adults have discovered the delights of eight-wheel drive. Schools across the country are scheduling skating classes and turning gymnasiums into makeshift rinks. The Parsippany-Troy Hills, N.J., school system recently bought 1,800 pairs of skates for student use. New Mexico State University in Las Cruces even gives credits for skating, and the Boy Scouts have introduced a roller merit badge. But the majority of skaters have been lured by the garish, ultramodern rinks that are becoming as much...
...composer's lifetime-he died in 1869-Les Troyens was impossible to stage. The music seemed to be an occasional interval in the vast silence of the scene changes. Berlioz even tried breaking the work into two parts-"The Capture of Troy" and "The Trojans at Carthage"-but could get only an inadequate staging of the second half. The Metropolitan's $45.7 million dollar plant-which houses four enormous stages on two levels, a 57-foot turntable, and the most intricate theatrical lighting system in the country-can accommodate the composer's billowing visions, but only...
...Hair. Musically, the opera is a series of epic climaxes; there is, for instance, no overture. Except to the most committed Berlioz aficionado, part one is a stark musical landscape with none of the lyricism that is to follow. To compensate-and in effect illustrate the fall of Troy-Wexler and Director Nathaniel Merrill have conjured up six full scene changes spinning around on the turntable. Complete with a dazzling procession, the horse, plus three more huge icons of animals, it is a mesmerizing panoply...