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...country whose reputation for being dull is only exceeded by its own schizophrenic sense of self, Trudeau became the alter ego--the seducer and inevitable misleader. He played on the nation's vanity and dour self-image, making Ottawa--the greyest of places--a momentary Camelot. Canada wanted a performer and found one in this brilliant intellectual star. But inflation surged, the dollar plummeted, and Trudeau's light faded...
...given to him by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. As the band struck up 007's theme, the club's "Man of the Year" got the traditional brass pot, as well as a dart board displaying a picture of Roger Moore, James Bond's alternate alter ego. Connery, however, would probably rather be throwing darts at his former financial adviser Kenneth Richards, who allegedly put millions of Connery's into an unsecured French real estate deal, which collapsed. Richards was ordered by a British court to pay Connery $4 million but shortly afterward claimed...
Instead of making sound by physical means, the way a piano does when its hammers strike the strings, the synthesizer generates tones electronically. Older analog models employed a battery of oscillators, filters and amplifiers, both to produce and to alter the color of sound. Their newer digital cousins are to analogs what compact disc record players are to the ordinary turntable; they represent each point on the sonic spectrum with a series of numbers programmed into the machine. Synthesizers can go beyond standard intervals (the white and black keys of a piano) to register quarter tones and microtones. They...
...that he might emerge as a liberal, eager to improve relations with the West and reform the Soviet Union's cumbersome system of centralized planning. Andropov proved to be neither. Having taken hold of the reins of power late in life, he found his grip too feeble to alter the course of a nation of 271 million...
...charge of some of the nation's most distinguished graduate programs. In addition, he can capitalize on Harvard's enormous influence over other American colleges and universities. After Dean Henry Rosovsky introduced a "core curriculum" in 1979 for Harvard undergraduates, many other liberal arts colleges rushed to alter their programs. Thus it was of far more than parochial interest when Harvard last week announced a successor to Rosovsky, 56, who will return next fall to the economics department. His replacement: another economist, A. Michael Spence, 40, an expert in industrial organization...