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...somber judgment scene from Aida unfolds. Portraying the Egyptian princess Amneris is a singer identified in the program as ``Carmelita Della Vaca- Browne,'' a burly Puerto Rican ex-soprano whose voice (since giving birth to triplets) has darkened to a take-no-prisoners mezzo. In the role of the doomed warrior Radames, all-American tenor ``Tex Stolto'' can't seem to resist handing out glossy photos of himself. And as Ramfis, the high priest, Russian bass ``Boris Pistoff'' doffs his headdress to reveal himself as a Conehead...
...somber judgment scene from Aida unfolds. Portraying the Egyptian princess Amneris is a singer identified in the program as "Carmelita Della Vaca- Browne," a burly Puerto Rican ex-soprano whose voice (since she gave birth to triplets) has darkened to a take-no-prisoners mezzo. In the role of the doomed warrior Radames, all-American tenor "Tex Stolto" can't seem to resist handing out 8-by-10 glossies of himself. And as Ramfis, the high priest, Russian bass "Boris Pistoff" doffs his headdress to reveal himself as a Conehead...
...agency was debited $47,000 for tickets taken last June. The local chapter of the American Society of Travel Agents has asked airlines to install $1,500 computer scanners at boarding gates to identify the hot tickets. Three weeks ago, when thieves held up Van Nuys travel agent Alfredo Vaca for the second time, he refused to surrender any more blanks, convinced that the losses would put him out of business. The robbers shot him dead...
THREE YOUNG MEN, their faces painted with geometrical designs, were lying in the rubble of what was to be a life-size papier-mache cow, wailing loudly, "La vaca es muerta!," while two policemen attempted to pull them to their feet. People were spinning around ecstatically to a Jimi Hendrix guitar riff. A girl stops short: "I'm tripping," she says, her eyes dilated and staring at an image of a dragon overhead...
...appointment, members of the party politburo met in emergency session at the Communists' fortress-like glass-and-steel headquarters. Despite three hours of deliberation, they were unable to agree on how to react. The indecision continued even after Party Leader Georges Marchais had hastily returned from his vaca tion on the beaches of Rumania. A Communist delegation met with Fabius to ask for guarantees that the fight against unemployment would receive priority over the government's austerity policy. Later, the central committee announced that it was "not satisfied with the answers that Mr. Fabius gave...