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...people believe commercials-with good reason." The Tonka Toy Co. ran an ad that showed one of its toy trucks surviving a stomping by an elephant. Horowitz got his own Tonka and submitted it to pachyderm pummeling at the Los Angeles Zoo. When the vehicle was removed from the cage, it was crushed flatter than a shadow...
Lintgen also draws the line at certain contemporary works, such as those of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. "That," says the doctor, "is not music." But he can spot such forbidding or lesser known compositions as Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie or Alan Hovhaness's Floating World "Ukiyo." "Those two were my best accomplishments," he says, "unless you count the time I recognized a recording of Beethoven's Fifth from across the room...
Throughout the trial, which has been closed except for two brief public sessions, the defendants have been confined in a large steel-barred cage. One defendant, who is still suffering from wounds incurred in the attack on Sadat, lies on a stretcher on the floor. When not in the courtroom, the defendants are kept in solitary confinement. Their attorneys charged at the opening of the trial that they had been beaten and tortured. Last week, however, they seemed in good spirits, clasped copies of the Koran and called out to relatives in the courtroom...
...last chorus, a pirate sidekick appears with a small bird-cage, which the king solemnly takes up and proceeds to give the broadsword treatment. To the chorus's strains of "hurrah for the pirate king," the song concludes with the king in an epic pose, with his new weapon, holding it above his head in an outstretched arm, completely oblivious to the fact that it is not Excalibur. It is an inspired and unprecedented touch that instantly reveals the winsome befuddlement of a buccanneer who refuses to plunder orphans and yields at once when Queen Victoria's name is involved...
...major action now is the distillation of the novelties of 30 years ago." Ever the critic, he pithily appraises such composers as Elliott Carter ("not negligible"), John Cage ("a certain comic value") and Roger Sessions ("for the school and college trade"). Erik Satie, the sardonic French aesthete who raised understatement to a cardinal principle of composition, is still his ideal and greatest influence...