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Amidst Santigold, Sex Pistols, and (Lisa) Stanfield among others, musicwhore likes Nixon in China:
Nixon in China is engaging, sometimes even exhilarating, even if the idea of a US diplomatic trip to a Communist country during the Cold War seems like unlikely operatic material.
This reminds me that I was on a walk in a Palo Alto neighborhood back then and saw a TV showing the opera.
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