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i 1 1 1 p4 the tribune wednesday november 8 198 feds should look inward markham-whitchurch- stouffville mp bill attewell was in town last week to sell residents on the new goods and services tax gst which will be im plemented before we know it he and his conservative cok leagues have been travelling across the country trying to pro mote a tax that comes as another burden upon the consumer mr attewell and the rest of the government members have a tough task ahead of them pro moting a tax is like trying to sell ice to the inuit no one denies that this country needs some sort of tax change to lower the deficit let alone the debt which is an astounding 321 billion but for a government which thinks nothing of allowing cabinet ministers to use its private jet of flying two jets to a single location for the conve nience of the prime minister and his wife or of spending millions on an overcrowded bureaucracy this smooth talk is out of line perhaps the federal conser vatives should take a closer look at auditor general kenneth dyes report and look for ways to trim their own fat then mr attewell and com pany can return to the public and look for cooperation with their heads held high count me out of the opera- loving crowd it may sound like sour grapes but im delighted not to have seen aida at the skydome because on reflec tion i cant think of many things id rather not do than sit in a cavernous stadium and watch an opera on a giant television screen when id paid enormous sums of money to see it live if you were willing to shell out something in excess of 100 a seat you could actually see the stage itself and the people and elephants on it clearly the trouble was according to some people i know who went the vast stateoftheart jum- botron tended to distract ones gaze away from what was ac tually happening onstage kates corner kate gilderdale anyway if you happened to be in the seats reserved for the masses which cost a measly 80 or so and had to watch it on the tube the least they could have done was to issue remotes with volume controls for those alarming but perfectly ex ecuted high cs whose shatter ing effect on the eardrums is not dissimilar to that of the fire alarm from the vantage point of the iga parking lot stouf f ville ux bridge tribune publisher editorinchief editor director of advertising retail advertising mgr administration mgr promotionsdistribution mgr patricia pappas don bernard stephen houston debra weller susan berry chris bertram jennifer hutt the fact is i dont like opera whats more i suspect im not alone its whats known as an acquired taste like root beer or a dip in the lake on jan 1 and if i have to work that hard to en joy a relaxing evenings enter tainment i think ill stick to the movies its not that the music isnt wonderful the famous march is one of my favorite pieces the trouble with opera is the solos more specifically those sung by women the better the singer the more likely her vocal pyrotechnics will cause you to have a major heart at tack i hate to admit it but my musical taste can only be described as deplorably low brow so the phantom of the opera and les miserables a soap opera set to music according to my husband can hardly be accused of being high art for one thing the music is instantly memorable and requires no ef fort to ingest theyre also highly entertaining the same could be said of gilbert and sullivan or offen bach whose operettas are frowned upon by purists as mere musicals the lesson to be learned from all this is that if you understand it it isnt art if you enjoy it right away without suffering first it has no redeeming social value and if everyone else has been to see it and enjoyed it as well where does that leave your exclusivity as with most extravaganzas of this kind aida was first and foremost a media event the success of which is likely to be measured by an entry in the guinness book of records for the biggest replica of a sphinx or the worlds largest mound of elephant droppings artistic merit after all must come a poor second to such worldclass considerations still it was nice of all those sports fans to let the culture buffs use their newest toy par ticularly since i think itll be a long time before we see the blue jays hitting home runs at the okeefe centre pubiished every wednesday by metroland printing publishing and distributing at 9 heritage rd markham ontario l3p1m3 tel 2942200 second class registration number 1247 the stouffviteuxbridge trfcune published every wfednesday at 54 main st w stouffvile is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing group of suburban rewspapers which includes the acton free press ajaxpickering news advertiser aurora banner brampton guardian burlington post etobicoke advertiserguardian georgetown independent mjton champion fviississauga news newmarket era oakvibe beaver oshawawhitby this week richmond hihthomhbvaughan liberal scarborough mirror markham economist sun topic nevniagane vvltoftdale mirrc 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