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...violently. At one store in the city of Rosario, shoppers attacked clerks who tried to hike prices. Some law-abiding retailers complained that public opinion was turning against them. "We worry about the tone of the price-control operation," said Carlos de la Vega, a spokesman for the Argentine Chamber of Commerce. "People blame...
...countries, last week issued a warning to South Africa's critics around the world. "No self- respecting nation," he declared, "can allow any other country, large or small, to dictate to it how it should be governed." Botha's unyielding speech, made at the closing of the new three-chamber Parliament in Cape Town, was a reply to the storm of international protest that has greeted South Africa's actions in recent weeks...
...player in his Porsche as he commutes between Connecticut and New York City. Gerald Koris, a Los Angeles lawyer, has bought more than two dozen classical-music disks since becoming hooked last year. Says he: "It's the first time I can hear the piano with full power. In chamber music, I can't tell the difference anymore between recorded and live...
...could say that The Goonies is not so much a movie as the kinetic model for a theme-park attraction: the Pirate Fun House (& Restaurant). Tiptoe past the men's room and peek at a SCARY MONSTER! Crawl through a fireplace into a SPOOKY CHAMBER! Elude the clutches of an EVIL ITALIAN GANG! See the underground WATERFALL, the infernal CANNONBALL, the DEATH ORGAN and the very many SKELETONS! Hurtle down the FLUME to the cavern containing a genuine imitation 17th century PIRATE SHIP! Get out ALIVE! (And have a nice day.) As in any fun house, the pleasures here...
...dance, Glass is composing a new work for Choreographer Twyla Tharp to be produced in 1986. His CBS album of chamber music, Glassworks, part of which was used by Jerome Robbins for a hit ballet called Glass Pieces, has sold 115,000 copies worldwide since its 1982 release. In Cannes recently, Glass and two others shared the prize for Best Artistic Contribution for their work on Director Paul Schrader's new film Mishima, about the Japanese novelist and warrior manque; Glass also scored Godfrey Reggio's 1982 vision of environmental apocalypse, Koyaanisqatsi. Currently the composer is finishing a new opera...