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...Cronkite image-sad eyes under luxuriant, quizzical brows, basso delivery at once stentorian and soothing -is as familiar to millions of viewers as the physiognomies of their families, yet the reason for his appeal sends analysts groping for metaphors. Chicago Sun-Times TV Columnist Ron Powers thinks that "somewhere in the collective consciousness of people in this country is the ideal composite face and voice of the American Man-and Cronkite has it." Paul Klein, a former audience researcher at NBC, thinks that viewers have stuck with Cronkite because his rational rhetoric provides a buffer of sanity between the often...
Florence was confronted with the worst problems in the history of art conservation. But technology, as World War II showed, is stimulated by disaster. Today the art Restoration Laboratories in Florence's 16th century Fortezza da Basso have become the world's proving ground for conservation methods-thanks, in large part, to the collaboration of university laboratories and major chemical firms like Italy's Montedison. The techniques used by the more than 60 restorers and artisans in the Fortezza make most earlier methods look antediluvian. Says Umberto Baldini, 50, the dynamic head of the laboratories: "Once, restorers...
SANDERS THEATER. Bach Society Orchestra. Mozart: Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos (Paul Rosenbloom and Hugh Wolff, soloists); Bach: Cantata No. 82 (Justino Diaz, basso soloist). Tickets...
SANDERS THEATER. Bach Society Orchestra. Early music with trumpet, organ, and basso soloists. Tickets: $.75. March...
...incident was a macabre echo of 1935, when another Met manager, Basso Herbert Witherspoon, died of a heart attack six weeks after being engaged...