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...words over possible chemical warfare in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan will probably extensive for quite some time, despite last week's claim by a Harvard professor that so-called "yellow rain" is nothing more than bee feces...
...most sophisticated example yet of the prominent role that musical sound tracks are playing in the marketing of Hollywood movies. Music used to be merely an afterthought or, at best, a happy byproduct of the movie. But the success of Saturday Night Fever in 1977, with its hit Bee Gees score, taught Hollywood a valuable lesson: rock sound tracks can be not only big sellers but big promotional tools for the films they embellish. The lesson was resoundingly driven home with last year's Flashdance, whose album (4.9 million copies sold in the U.S.), hit singles like What...
From the first peremptory drum roll of Rossini's La Gazza Ladra overture, it is clear that the brilliance of Celibidache (cheh-lee-bee-JaA-keh) is no myth. The performance is almost preternaturally nuanced, unfolding with a sure sense of logic and purpose. Even during the patented Rossini crescendos, Celibidache maintains a calm yet iron control, putting the listener in mind of Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish...
Some arms-control experts speculate that the Soviets had cut down on chemical warfare because of U.S. pressure. Some scientists, however, doubt that the Soviets ever used toxic weapons in Southeast Asia. "Yellow rain," they say, was actually bee excrement. Now, these critics suggest, the U.S. is simply using a more stringent standard of proof...
Harvard Biologist Matthew Meselson, 53, has been embroiled in bitter controversy ever since he suggested last spring that the "yellow rain" in Southeast Asia, which the State Department claims is biochemical weaponry used by the Soviet Union, is actually bee droppings. Last week, as the beleaguered Meselson sat dictating letters requesting $700 from the Harvard administration to help fund his work, the phone rang. An official of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago informed him that he had been chosen to receive a fiveyear, no-strings $256,000 award. Meselson covered the mouthpiece and gleefully exclaimed...