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...Europe for the past eight years. Though she already had 49 performances of Lulu to her credit, she was engaged as the cover (understudy) for Soprano Teresa Stratas. As reward, Farley had been given one of the seven performances to sing herself. A month and a half ago, Stratas withdrew from the production, complaining about lack of rehearsal time. Farley got the call on the day of a birthday party she was throwing for her year-old daughter Lara (Conductor José Serebrier is her husband). Says Farley: "I couldn't have asked for a better Met debut...
...Stag and Cheri, hinges on the absolute degradation of women. Page after page shows women being strung up, knocked down, beaten with objects too numerous to mention, pierced in places too delicate to mention, and I would go on, but I have my roommates to consider. When Nora Ephron withdrew her name from a newspaper advertisement protesting Larry Flynt's conviction, I do not think she was especially offended by the "blue collar" sensibilities of Hustler. I do not think sophisticated French pronography would have been any more palatable to her. Empress Katharine and her pedigreed white horse...
...When South Africa withdrew its police and helicopter pilots from our country over the past two years, it indicated that it believed this was in the best interests of both our countries. We would hope South Africa would continue to treat us simply as a normal friend would treat us, and would not turn against us as the rest of our friends in the world have done. We would hope, for example, they would never lend themselves to the despicable game of trying to apply sanctions against us and persecute us because we try to live a normal life...
...atmosphere described in the protest message "must have become apparent to more than just a few students," Green said, noting that of the nine black students originally assigned to Craig's two writing sections this fall, six withdrew before the end of the semester...
...Turner is nominated, at least part of the reason may be that Carter has chosen to tiptoe carefully down the middle on the CIA question. His first choice for director, Theodore Sorensen, suddenly withdrew from consideration three days before the Inauguration because it had become apparent that he was unacceptable to a powerful coalition of liberals and conservatives on the Senate Intelligence Committee (TIME, Jan. 31). Members of the committee would not commit themselves when asked about Turner, but the admiral seems widely acceptable-to liberals, because he does not come from within the CIA's ranks...