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...area, his actors drenching his audience, or leading it out of the room altogether, into Rome (A-entry of Adams House) where power-mad politicians parade around in squares as they speak, and Antony no sooner marries a mummified Octavia than she is cast off into an echoing isolation chamber...
Mayor Moscone, whose father had been a guard at San Quentin and once showed his young son the gas chamber, had long opposed the death penalty. Last week the charges lodged against Dan White were carefully crafted to permit a court to decree that he must die for those murderous moments at city hall...
...Chamber Music for the Holidays--Cabot Living Room, South House...
...money. Consider a recent black-tie dinner for eight in the Trousdale Estates section of Beverly Hills, where liveried attendants park the cars and the houses are modeled after Tiberius' villas on Capri. The table was authentic Chippendale, the service gold leaf, the goblets and tableware gold. A chamber trio played. Among the guests: a history professor, a concert pianist, the wife of a German philosopher. And beside her: a young actor in a shimmering silk T shirt with a yo-yo appliqued on its front; the guests all deferred to him as he discussed his hit TV show...
...great artists as well as amateurs, chamber music can call forth the deepest emotions. Not long ago, Artur Rubinstein, who is 91, invited the Juilliard Quartet to rehearse at his Paris town house. After a leisurely lunch, the four went to work in the living room, with the old man listening. They had played only a few bars of Mozart when tears began to stream down Rubinstein's face. "I began to cry too," says Violinist Mann. "We all began to cry. It may not have been the best performance we ever gave, but it was certainly the most emotional...