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Both Bloom and Houn have won critical acclaim in their fields. Bloom recently won the "Downbeat" magazine critics' poll for the saxophone and has been compared to soprano sax masters John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter...
...oppressive choices that society forces on women. Indeed, that story can be found within A Southern Family, but so can many others. In her seventh novel, Gail Godwin again displays the narrative verve and generosity that won critical praise for her early works and then popular, best-selling acclaim for A Mother and Two Daughters (1982) and The Finishing School (1985). Her meticulously controlled fiction creates the illusion of life unpredictably unfolding and of characters trying to make moral sense out of experiences that overwhelm thought...
Isozaki is busy. His latest work includes a proposed sports palace for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and a full-scale replica in Tokyo of Shakespeare's Globe Theater. With the acclaim for MOCA has come more work in the U.S., including large new wings for the Brooklyn Museum...
...object of that acclaim is Sobhuza's strong-willed son and successor, Mswati III, at 19 the world's youngest reigning monarch. Five years after his father's death, Mswati has finally shown that he can use his full regal powers with a vengeance. So far this year he has arrested a dozen high Swazi officials, including five members of the royal family, on suspicion of sedition and treason. Says a Swazi journalist in Mbabane, the capital: "Mswati is clearly angry at the intrigue that took place following his father's death and is determined to put things right...
...been six U.S. Presidents, five Soviet leaders -- and four actors playing 007 -- since Dr. No opened to no special acclaim. But the spy created by Novelist Ian Fleming is still in business: saving the world from megalomaniac crime masters, heartless femmes fatales and indifferently prepared vodka martinis. It's a big business too. The first 14 Bond films presented by Albert R. ("Cubby") Broccoli have earned something like $2 billion around the world. (Broccoli did not produce the 1967 parody Casino Royale or Connery's free-lance return to the role in 1983's Never Say Never Again...