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Warning Shots. Violence erupted when rock-throwing crowds confronted baton-wielding Israeli soldiers. In the worst incident, soldiers fired warning shots into a crowd of demonstrators, wounding three young Arabs, one critically. Disagreement on how to handle the troubles split the Israeli leadership. Defense Minister Shimon Peres rejected the idea of any stiffer military measures, but Premier Yitzhak Rabin, in a private talk with Peres, declared: "I don't care if we have to put the entire army in the West Bank. I want quiet and order, and I want...
...real peril point in modern presidential politics is the baton-passing moment when a sitting President tries to transfer power to a successor. This has never been done successfully in modern politics. Such elections have been the only ones in modern times when the White House shifted to the other party. Truman could not pass the keys of office to Stevenson, nor Eisenhower to Nixon, nor L.B.J. to Hubert Humphrey...
...forget the grainy documentary film sequence that shows Dr. Josef Mengele greeting new arrivals at Auschwitz? Handsome as a matinee idol in his uniform, he blithely chooses the men, women and children for genetic experiments. Those not gently nudged aside by his baton go more quickly to their deaths in the gas chamber...
Barn in Winter. Under Caldwell's baton, the orchestra became an involved member of the drama, not a bored bystander. She gave Verdi's familiar music breadth, intimacy and, when appropriate, thoughtful pause. Her bold use of the brass and low strings, for example, gave the orchestral fabric a strikingly firm and secure bottom. One heard small details, often lost, that underscore Violetta's isolation: the clarinet obbligato accompanying the Act I "Ah! fors' é lui" and the oboe solo in the death scene...
...theaters owned by her parents. A native of Indiana, she was named after a Midwestern pig-calling contestant known as Twila. "My mother thought Twyla would look good on a theater marquee," explains Tharp. Her ambitious mother also laid out a marathon course of piano, violin, viola, drum, baton-twirling, ballet and tap-dancing lessons that occupied Tharp's childhood. It all paid...