Word: apre
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true vocation, he says, is the one he has aspired to ever since adolescence, when he sat transfixed by a BBC radio broadcast of Debussy's L 'Après-Midi d'un Fanne: composing. With little outside encouragement, young Burgess taught himself music, beginning with the piano keyboard. "Find middle C," he maintains, "and you have found everything." At 20 he had written his first symphony. By the time of his erroneous death sentence he had, while supporting himself as a teacher, produced a catalogue of 65 mostly unplayed works...
...Duluth. The novel is a shotgun satire of, among other things, the modern literary racket, from assembly line romances to academic criticism. Take, for example, Vidal's mock theory of après poststructuralism: "Corollary to the relative fictive law of absolute uniqueness is the simultaneity effect, which is to fiction what Miriam Heisenberg's law is to physics. It means that any character can appear, simultaneously, in as many fictions as the random may require." This is meant to explain why characters who die in Duluth can reappear in a TV show of the same name...
...glistening in 2 ft. of new powder. Twenty guests-the inn's capacity-enjoy wine-and-cheese parties in the meadows, photograph elk, ermine and eagles, soak in private hot tubs and feed resident tame llamas. No sounds of sports cars, chain saws, chairlifts or rock music from après-ski lounges pollute the mountain air. At $75 a day, including instruction, equipment and dinners of prime rib and smoked turkey, the ranch is half the price of similar downhill digs. But half price is only half the reason for the appeal. Ranch Operator Ken Jones says: "Most...
...back to the simpler past of the '50s: not the most ennobling American era, they admit, but not such a bad one either. Worse things have happened, such as 20 years of assassinations, riots, Viet Nam and Watergate, OPEC's extortions and the dollar's humiliation. Après Ike, le déluge. Eisenhower's '50s begin to seem an almost golden time...
...Queen and Prince Philip off on a state visit to Switzerland, Andrew hosted a dinner in his Buckingham Palace apartment for a single guest: Carolyn Seaward, 19, a Devonshire lass who as Miss United Kingdom is best known for her measurements (35-24-35). "Absolutely wonderful," gushed Carolyn après he. "We just relaxed and listened to music and chatted. The Prince talked about my modeling career and a little about the navy...