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Jewish food magazine « e,yen to p /a ^ tive gaining new flavor fun hockey United Press International OSLO — American speed skating star Eric Heiden, who won five gold medals at the Winter Olympics, Wednesday joined an amateur Norwegian hockey team. Heiden, 21, of Madison, Wis., has not played hockey for five years and he admitted he was having a little trouble adjusting to skating for the Manglerud Star first division team. “It’s been quite some time since I used hockey skates and I had certain problems turning to the right,’’ THE BATTALION Page 3B THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1980 Heiden said after his first practice session. The new club assigned Heiden the number “5” to coincide with the number of Olympic medals he won at the winter Olympics in Lake Pla cid, N.Y. rsity chapter ctirrec-, : “ITlberS out ofthel j) United Press International • state. Twenty to 25 percent of each issue ['he national org;r ):; ,of a new Jewish lifestyle magazine is nded in 1960; the ^devoted to food articles and recipes ipter was organizdr, — to the chagrin of some readers. Membership is open; A male subscriber in Michigan re- years-old and youni tently wrote editor-publisher Larry j. “We’reinthepr%Arylh Rubin: ; (a chapter) undenJ *1 find your magazine quite appe al School.” tizing but I have a beef with you. iimpson said bothiTomToncl columns are a bit excessive ericans for Freedom when one would satisfy my hunger, ing ConservativesYou can earn your bread by adding same candidates in the morc meaty articles of general in is, but Nelsonsaidllif‘ l terest - To e gg y° u on even further I not campaign to; think the whole thing is fishy and I wish you turkeys would butter me up by following my suggestion. Or are you chicken?” A day or so later, Rubin received a letter from a woman reader on New York’s Long Island. She complained she’d expected “a Kosher ‘Bon Appe- tit’ or a Kosher ‘Gourmet’” only to find Jewish Living had become “a Jewish newspaper in glossy form.” “I cannot cook articles on di amonds, on (the) Jewish rich, on Jewish athletes,” she concluded. Rubin said two of the three articles she mentioned have been among the three most popular with readers dur- K d Politics is peril y for Italian opera I United Press International MILAN, Italy — It’s nothing but our notes these days for La Scala, he world’s most famous opera house nd the crown jewel of Italian cul lers and carrels •ked out. Lockers; uent inspections bi tel. Bureaucracy and politics have l( 111,11 lu tarrt 'iftjj|)rced a crippling financial crisis, nocked by the opulent opening ights in the theater’s “golden orseshoe” that are a “must” for lurope’s social elite. Prominent figures at La Scala are electing because of government in- tability and the slow politicization of taly s theaters. Private financing, specially corporate support so com- lon in the United States, is frowned pon “For several years La Scala has een in an absurd situation for lack of loney and competent personnel, Id the celebrated Claudio Abbado hen he resigned as musical direc- >r. “Few people are willing to con- nue working there.” Abbado, 46, was one of the few — e stayed on as orchestra director, bw he has walked out on that job, les left will be ren ,ry so the carrel i •d. jy deposits of$5fo •r graduate student >e charged for cam •posit is $1. v ippet- “I want the verdk an individual has his behavior.” •nton is charged ale:, Sheridan with k >wn house owned 1 Fla., couple lastSq ■d the couple, slaslie with a knife and Fioravante Nanni, La Scala’s sec- :tary general and one of Europe’s , ,, ,ii tost respected theater entrep- isecutor Marshall Fir 1 . , . i ir > ^ iV a ,, meurs, resigned in a hull last De- •ssfuHy he state ■ i mber and took over the 0 to pay the sv.OOO t wE r r, , .ji , heater ot Rome. “F left La Scala when it started ecoming too political,” Nanni said. iVe want to make theater, not play alitics. That will mean the death of h opera as we know it. La Scala has had golden moments the 202 years since Austrian press Maria Teresa ordered the ilding of the theater — the first ring of music by Verdi, Wagner, iccini and Mussorgsky and conduc- J such as Arturo Toscannini. But observers say La Scala’s days the grand old lady of opera and e|first theater of the world” are unbered. “La Scala’s reputation has de- ped drastically over the past few ars because of its political and EERS uates O., INC. nuclear financial situation,” Nanni said. “Italian opera in general does not have a very high level of credibility right now. It was harder and harder for me to attract foreign ‘superstars.’ They prefer not to come to Italy. Some of those who come do so for sentimental reasons.” La Scala’s deep financial problems stem from the fact that all Italian theaters are subsidized by the state. But the money is never enough, and the annual amounts are usually un certain until the 11th hour, a wait- and-hope game which wreaks havoc with future planning. “The earliest you can book a well- known singer is usually three or four years in advance,” Nanni said. “If you don’t know what the budget will be, how can you offer good people money?” Italian union regulations have hampered La Scala’s attempts to stretch its budget. Musicians, sin gers and support staff are paid whether or not they work. From 80 percent to 90 percent of La Scala’s average $17 million annual subsidy, Nanni estimates, goes in salaries for full-time staffers. Italy’s leftist political parties, which say theater should not be “contaminated ’ by corporate money, have stymied all serious attempts to attract private financing. “The purists and some members of the Communist Party think private financing would mean the prima donna running across the stage in Adidas jogging shoes or Coca Cola served in paper cups during inter mission,” said Maurizio Giammusso, theater critic for the Milan newspap er Corriere Della Sera. Italian theatergoing has skyrock eted nearly 400 percent in the past 10 years. But the increased receipts have not been enough. The govern ment must pay about twice each tick et price in subsidy money. Nanni says he had to turn down offers of help from Italian corpora tions because they did not go over well politically. s March 21, I Be PleasedWi ;te Tempting foil .99 Plus Tax WOOD6TOCK GONDOMINIUM6 30 P.M. to 7« WEDNESDAY EVENING SPECI thicken FriedSte w/creamGrav) 1 Vhipped Potatoes: Choice of one otte' Vegetable or Corn Bread and Coffee orTea UN DAY SPEC! JON and EVE! ST TURKEY# Served with Cranberry Sauce )ornbread Dress'; or Corn Bread-I Coffe orTea Giblet Gravy id your choiceola' 1 One vegetable The Woodstock condominiums and why they make sense today. Thecondominium is a time-tested great idea. The Greeks and Romans used the basic concept over 3,000 years ago. Today, the Woodstock condominiums are a beautiful example of the modern alternate to apartment living. Located on Highway 30, Woodstock gives you direct access to Texas A&M University, major shopping centers and all sorts of recreation. Heavily wooded, a wandering creek accents the land scaped area. 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In addition to the food coverage, each issue of the magazine contains one serious, timely article and one light article, plus features and depart ments. The great Jewish athletes article appeared in the February issue, along with excerpts from diaries by a group of young Americans who vi sited Eastern European concentra tion camps as part of a program of the Holocaust, the Nazis’ systematic destruction of more than six million European Jews before and during World War II. The March-April, or Passover, issue marks the first anniversary of the magazine that began as Kosher Home, then was renamed Kosher Home’s Jewish Living and now is called simply Jewish Living. It includes includes articles about presidential adviser Stuart E. Eizen- stat and Mayor Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, plus advice on choos ing a summer camp for children and holiday recipes that are both tradi tional and contemporary. 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