Word: beethovens
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...read trashy American novels and listened to Chubby Checker albums. A rare Andropov interview published in the West German magazine Der Spiegel brought the rumor mill grinding to a halt. Andropov acknowledged that he had traditional tastes. He said that he did not play tennis but did enjoy Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata. But even these sparse revelations about his personal hie were not shared with the Soviet people...
...straightforward, Carpi's film is neverthe-less intricately worked out psychologically. It plays like a lovely chamber piece, and its actors work with a good musical quartet's instinctive politesse and self-effacing skill, muting individual flights in deference to total effect. Carpi may never be a Beethoven of the cinema, but he could perhaps be a Schubert, and there are few enough of those making movies these days...
...color, culture and tradition, the opening ceremonies began when 1500 athletes from 49 countries marched in a magnificent procession to pop and disco, to Beethoven, Mozart and Bach...
...night's heroics were performed by a tiny sergeant of the Army's Strolling Strings. Without flinching, she fiddled a mere two feet from the ear of Violin Virtuoso Isaac Stern, who would play Beethoven later...
...only as far away as the TV set or the video machine? Whole generations have had their brains fried with a cathode ray tube, a condition that creates a certain impatience and shortness of attention when limited to aural input. Posterity can rest easy-as Billy Joel points out, "Beethoven didn't have no videos, and he's been hanging in there"-but for rockers, popsters and soul brethren, video will be the way to keep time with the future...