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Talking Heads: Burning Down the House (David Byrne); Once in a Lifetime (Byrne and Toni Basil). Psychedelic drawing-room comedy and fine-tuned anxiety, with a solid foundation of funk. If there were a contest for best of the best, Byrne would be the one to beat...
...matter of fact, for more than 300 years, Sevcenko says, scholars have generally thought that a 10th-century manuscript chronicling the life of Basil, a ninth-century Byzantine emperor, was written by the ruler's grandson, the emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus...
This often means studying a certain text and trying to draw broad conclusions--as Sevcenko has done with the chronicle of Basil's life, which has dominated much of his research for the last decade...
...BASIL RATHBONE New York City...
...lion," Assad staged his own coup. Hisback as straight as a bayonet, Assad looks and acts like the military man he once was. He neither smokes nor drinks, and often toils late into the night. He and his wife do not live lavishly, though one of their children, Basil, 19, can occasionally be spotted tooling around Damascus in his Porsche. Taciturn by nature but capable of flashes of wry wit, Assad has a personality that lends itself to the meticulous art of negotiation. U.S. diplomats ranging from Henry Kissinger to George Shultz, who have experienced Assad's grueling...