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...distrust of its leaders. The law accepted the assumption that an Administration should not investigate itself. It understood that a government deriving its legitimacy from the consent of the governed must not only act forthrightly but appear to do so. Indeed, the Sentelle panel adopted this exact rationale to ax Fiske, who had been appointed by Clinton's Justice Department. The statute, the judges said, "contemplates an apparent as well as an actual independence on the part of the counsel." That apparent independence was compromised when Sentelle met with Faircloth and Helms...
...Starr has never before worked as a prosecutor, colleagues expect him to approach the Whitewater job with a zeal for thoroughness. He will probably reinvestigate some areas already covered even as he moves into new ones. There's a lot of wood to chop, and no telling where his ax will fall...
...agree more with your assessment of Ax's playing, but I think that Yo-Yo Ma deserves a bit more credit for having the artistic integrity to try and blend with the ensemble. Admittedly, it must have been frustrating, but I feel that he remained more true to the spirit of the music than any of his colleagues, Ax included...
...lose it in the final movements, but I had mostly given up by then. Another peculiarity that this recording shared with the Brahms release was the neartotal absence of the higher registers. As usual, Stern simply failed to get appreciable resonance from his instrument and was often downright tinny. Ax dominated the middle and lower registers, edging out Laredo and Ma in the process, and a lack of a suitable complement in the upper range gave this recording a disturbing hollow quality. Even Sony's 20-bit "Super Bit-Mapping" recording techniques didn't seem to make a substantial difference...
...Ax's solo parts made me think he was playing cadenzas for some Romantic concerti; when the rest of the continuo (which they might rightly be called) come back in, you're left wondering where the rest of the orchestra went. In the fervid parts of the Schumann, their sound had none of the immediacy of Ax...