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...SOURCES: Burt Folsom, Mackinac Center for Public Policy; Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude, The First Modern Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1997); Japan Economic Institute
...Burt Bacharach's music has always had its thoughtful admirers along with its merely numerous ones. But given 30 years' worth of toxically vaporous renditions of his tunes seeping out of elevators, of knotty little songs like I'll Never Fall in Love Again and deliciously bitter ones like Walk On By being consigned to the easy-listening bins--the pop equivalent of assisted suicide--it takes a lot of nerve for a serious jazz musician like McCoy Tyner to record What the World Needs Now (Impulse!), an entire album of Bacharach compositions. And it takes even more nerve...
Unlike Gershwin, Bacharach, perhaps because he worked in pop-rock and pop-soul idioms, has not been taken seriously by devotees of the Great American Songbook. But Tyner's album, along with another new CD (Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach) produced by avant-garde composer and klezmer enthusiast John Zorn and featuring a number of musicians with jazz leanings from New York's Downtown school, makes the case that Bacharach's melodies are worthy of being standards. Tyner says he's "shocked" that more jazz musicians haven't taken them...
Unlike Henry Fonda or Burt Lancaster, Stewart did not have the luck to star in melancholy-twilight masterpieces; his final films were mostly amiable and mundane. He eased into late maturity with rueful good humor, telling director Peter Bogdanovich, "After 70 it's all patch, patch, patch." And he remained touched by his celebrity. "We were coming out of Chasen's one night," says Bogdanovich, "when a man put his hand out and said, 'Mr. Stewart, I don't guess it means much to you, but I want you to know I think you're wonderful.' Jimmy had taken...
...release Tupac Amaru prisoners in exchange for the hostages [WORLD, May 5]. The loss of innocent life was unfortunate, but taking no Tupac Amaru prisoners clearly means there is less motivation for future terrorists to attempt another exchange for jailed comrades. Fujimori has made Peru a safer, saner country. BURT M. RICHMOND Chicago