In addition, the U.S. strategy clearly depended on being able to execute a specific sequence of events.

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The tenor, a journalist who comes to interview the diva, turns out to be a wannabe opera singer himself, and in a fantasy sequence the two tediously execute the love duet of the diva's opera (about Eleanor of Aquitaine, of all things), a ponderous event with not one scintilla of musical heat or passion (that's the bit that ends with the bells).

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