The voice, which is rough to the point of harshness, is heavily accented with Spanish vehemence. (Grass says that he investigated before releasing records by South African artists on Shanachie and found no evidence of that arrangement)While "Sun City" has focused the pop world's attention on South Africa, the contemporary American sound of that record is far from the indigenous pop styles that have developed in that country. "Our contention" Morgenstern said, "is that we purchased the book and Abbott's life story. His teaching time is scheduled around them, but Hollywood's big names still meet him for tips at a Brentwood court he borrows from TV producer Roy Huggins.

Charles Wilson (D-Calif, who has since died, introduced legislation in Congress calling for certain financial disclosures by religious groups at the time of solicitation, a proposal that sent shock waves through the religious fund-raising community Sen Mark O. That's another way of saying it wasn't good enough to do any better. "We realize the sex appeal is there, but we don't play on it" Wilder insisted. They do everything a tad too long, a tad too broadly, a tad too self-importantly. Rivalry? You might as well try making fire by rubbing two sponges together. That didn't stop Channel 2 anchorwoman Colleen Williams from babbling on and on about how great "America" was during a recent 5 p. m KCBS newscast. "It wasn't until I was 17 and started USIU that I began to think seriously about a career" He studied at United States International University's musical theater program. LOS ANGELES — Jamie Torcellini's name has never been a household word in San Diego. The lady of the house tells two visitors it's Stanley's birthday, though it really isn't.

With the exception of a few abrupt synthesizer notes here and there, composer-sound designer Victor Zupanc has created a memorable aural feeling for both Gillian's celestial appearances and the sandy Atlantic setting. LEONCAVALLO: "PAGLIACCI" Teresa Stratas, Placido Domingo, Juan Pons, Alberto Rinaldi, singers; Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, conducted by Georges Pretre Philips 411 484-2 (compact disc. Only therapy for her and her husband has enabled their marriage to survive. Stan Allen, who has been practicing magic since age 12, has learned to lean more and more on comedy: less trick, more shtick. Several attempts by The Times to contact Babbs were unsuccessful Tuesday. The music is fairly standard stuff: lots of harmony, lots of counterpoint and scarcely a single memorable tune.

Clementine, Paul Bunyon and Johnny Appleseed are subjects for the first three shows She has decided to play Clementine because. In the displays of ceramic, stone, jade and metal wonders, he hopes the public will see "how the destruction of architectural context undermines the true significance" of artifacts. New to the Southland, a vocal septet, the San Francisco Opera Center Singers (Nikki Li Hartliep, Cheryl Parrish, Linde Caple, Daniel Harper, James Busterud, David Malis and Jacob Will, performs in Beckman Auditorium at Caltech in Pasadena Saturday night at 8. . Teroy's solo section calls for a flashy series of corkscrew turns-executed at breakneck speed. There is not a single reference to R W.

The man, identified only by his Lithuanian surname of Maigis, was diagnosed as a schizophrenic after the attack and sent to a psychiatric clinic by a Leningrad court, the newspaper said. Johnson, "the Photography Department" at the College of Marin north of San Francisco, is visiting the San Diego area while on academic leave. A cel holds a drawing used to create the movement of the animations. Teroy is flaunting his high-voltage technique throughout the weekend with the La Jolla-based jazz dance ensemble's repertory performances at 8 p. m today and at 2 and 8 p. m. But even here, as Orezzoli says, the dances themselves are kept undistorted: "The theatrical design comes in the union of the dances, not the dances themselves.

"Do they really believe the news division should have done these films, and not the people who did these films" Hewitt asked. Not raw, folksy humor, but a sophisticated, twinkling wit with a bit of bawdy The New York scenes are enchanting. James is appealing, but he has a stoic quality that in no way suggests Brian's passionate nature. KUSC-FM (91. 5, the most widely listened-to public radio station in Los Angeles, has dropped "All Things Considered-the last vestige of National Public Radio news programming on its schedule. They used to kill the messenger bearing bad news. Under the circumstances, one cannot be surprised to find some inflections blurred, some accents out of focus, some balances disturbed, some actions oddly motivated.

But I think we've gotten around that now" So where does Mendelssohn fit in? "We've recorded his seven quartets also" Weller said "But the name isn't that significant. It was not clear how much independence the new general channel would have in its presentation of news. National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and American Public radio's "Monitoradio" specialize in the kind of news that chain-smoking metro editors like to call "back of the book stuff; contemplative interviews with gandy dancers, radical biochemists or maybe a poetess who lives in the North Woods with five pet wolverines as her only companions. Bruckner in The New York Times: "In Miss Jens' voice, the Sexton wit can bite, and the actress can make the poet's clarity of vision a harrowing thing But tenderness has its power here, too, especially in Mrs Sexton's poem to one of her daughters. They came to paint the undeveloped landscapes and enjoy the mild climate. One of the most successful was Gainsborough (1727-1788, best known for "The Blue Boy" his oil portrait that hangs in the Huntington Library in San Marino.

After enduring Dance Theatre of Harlem's problematic productions and dutiful performances of 19th-Century ballet classics, even conservative balletomanes might wish the company to dance something splashy and unconstricted instead-say, an all-Geoffrey-Holder program Well, no need. It's frustrating to start over again in another field, but it's also good to have new challenges. KIDVID: A group of children's television advocates got together for the first American Children's Television Festival and wound up awarding prizes to just the shows you might have expected. Winners of the first Alpha Awards for excellence in the production of children's programming included three much praised national PBS series"Reading Rainbow" "Wonder Works" and "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood-and the Showtime cable series "Faerie Tale Theatre" Also honored were two local productions"The New Image Teen Theatre" from KPBS in San Diego and "Home Turf" from KRON in San Francisco-and two commercial network presentations: "Out of Time" produced by the Educational Film Center of Annandale, Va, for NBC's "Special Treat" series, and "One to Grow On" a series of short informational spots produced by NBC for airing between its Saturday-morning children's programs. "I didn't stay in San Diego long enough to be known, and now I'm a glorified chorus boy" he said "People don't really know who I am. While admitting that his oeuvre is an expression of rampant artistic ego, Roehl cushions it by stressing/parodying the economic base of its production He refers to himself as "R. R. R. But that has changed, says CBS/Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski. Steven Spielberg's movie "The Color Purple" separates feminist issues from religion and gives us a theology of old-time black religion.

Lentzner adds that, although the crisis is continuing"Any time an orchestra isn't performing, that's a crisis-the association stands in good stead with the IRS, and that there are at present no legal actions against the symphony. "I saw a great story about these people and an important piece of history unknown to most Americans" Schiller said. (Unfortunately, they don't bother to assess how it got that way-who, in other words, the they are in "The Japan They Don't Talk About" One would guess they mean the news media, which of course might include NBC. The viewer gets no sense of whether he has any empathy for the grievances of the murderers, nor of why he chose to go the different route of working for the very governmental system they see as oppressive. David Viscott will continue to field calls from listeners about their personal lives on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 2 to 4 p. m, the spokeswoman said.