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GARRISON KEILLOR |
The great tenor stood and wept for us
I saw Pavarotti sing "Pagliacci" at Carnegie Hall fifteen years ago and it was pretty good. The great man was a good hundred pounds over his fighting weight and he perspired heavily, but when it came time for him to stand and deliver "Vesti la giubba," he did it big, a cry from the heart with a sob in the voice that a tenor from, say, Minnesota or Iowa would find it hard to match, and the audience cried out in admiration, as it should, and stood and clapped and the great man bowed, hand over his heart, and grinned gamely -- he was, after all, playing a guy who is about to stab his wife and her lover -- and then we all sat down.
Making alibis makes poor policies
Back in the 1970s Vice President Spiro Agnew conducted harsh campaigns against political opponents, the press, church people and an inventory of others who incurred his displeasure.
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