Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel; Three Intermezzi, Op. 117; Three Intermezzi, Op. 119; Rhapsody, Op. 119 No. 4 (Pianist Van Cliburn, RCA). The Handel Variations are often thought of as a piece that only a pianist, or piano buff, could love. In one of his most appealing albums in years, Van Cliburn puts the lie to that. Leaping from one craggy Brahmsian peak to another as effortlessly as though playing Debussy's Clair de lune, Cliburn gives the work a warm romantic allure yet never loses hold of its classic-baroque underpinnings. What ingenuity...
...Pleased. At times Brezhnev's manner turned into downright discourtesy. On past state visits Brezhnev, known as a car buff, had received an automobile as a present. This time the French decided to give him not one, but two: a Matra Simca Bagheera sports model and a Matra Rancho cross-country station wagon. But the new Soviet President was not pleased with the color of the trim on the wagon's seats (tan) and its exterior (green). Mortified French officials rushed the vehicle back to its manufacturer, where assemblymen worked frantically on reupholstery (brown) and a new paint...
...that although the general has finally defeated Japan (with a little help from his friends), he has yet to conduct his model occupation of that country and then fight the Korean War. Much time gone and more yet to go-it is enough to defeat the most ardent military buff. Movie fans more interested in action than in a flatly told, 2½-hour recital of the Great Commander's later life may have long since departed...
...theories have also been advanced by Attorney Mark Lane, who has earned a lucrative living over the past 13½ years by exploiting all the uncertainties over both the J.F.K. and the King assassinations. In May he published a book, Code Name: "Zorro," with Comedian Dick Gregory, another assassination buff, which portrays Ray as the fall guy for the real assassins, who of course are not remotely identified...
...rock-oriented stylings of his group, Return to Forever. Here, Corea steps adroitly through an assortment of Spanish dance rhythms and folk tunes (with some Latin and African thrown in) and produces a tour de force that the pop-music lover should enjoy as much as the jazz buff...