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...strange; no one seems to be afflicted by a foreboding of doom. The book ends flatly, without the customary distant rumbling of a world's end and with no sense of cautionary exhortation by the author. Any such message-that tribalistic savagery is mankind's eternal, bone-bred evil, perhaps-would be excessive. Appelfeld simply and affectingly bears witness, and in the end, his sole, muted voice is more effective than a choir and louder than a roar...
...lost an ugly power struggle with Managing Director Marshall Turkin over the orchestra's artistic direction, a rupture that Previn declines to confirm. "To lose a job is one thing, but to keep your manners has to be done at the same time," says the Berlin-born, California-bred Previn, who previously led the London Symphony for eleven years. He was promptly snapped up by Ernest Fleischmann, the executive director in Los Angeles, who when manager of the London Symphony first brought Previn there as a guest conductor. Deadpans Fleischmann of his happy timing: "It was great luck...
...second three times in the Derby, starting when Sham chased Secretariat eleven years ago. "I thought I was destined never to win it," he said. Sham had been Bull Hancock's best hope to win it. But Hancock, a gigantic figure in Bluegrass history, died that year. He bred Derby winners, but never owned one. "It's about time," said a lovely woman with white hair, his widow...
...Christmas night when a photographer asked her to pose for a picture. Thus began the modeling career of Lisa Sliwa, national director of the Guardian Angels civilian vigilante group and wife of Angels Founder Curtis Sliwa, 30. Newly signed by the Zoli agency, the Chicago-bred, 5-ft. 9-in., 125-Ib. brunette, who says she is 25, still plans to spend her nights riding the city's trains with her husband and thinks her new occupation can help the old. "Most women believe modeling is more feminine than patrolling the subways, so I'll be able...
...make it in America, most Haitians must overcome a variety of barriers including racial discrimination, difficulties learning English and cultural differences as well as popular fears bred by widely-publicized links between Haitian immigrants and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome...