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...artist-in-residence at the University of California, and then fled ("Everybody sits around on their tenures; it's no place for professionals") to the San Francisco. The orchestra's 30-week season suits him perfectly, since it gives him time to tour with his chamber-music trio and spend lucrative summers playing film scores in Hollywood...
...officer of the 5th dismissed the whole thing as a prank, but there was no assurance that it would not happen again. When a government representative promised a tense meeting of the Kano Chamber of Commerce that all was under control, he was hooted down. "Assurances are no longer any good," retorted one local business leader...
...hair piled high in a bun, Lili Kraus last week began the first lap of her Mozart marathon. In the opening Concerto No. 4, composed when Mozart was eleven, she unfolded the beguilingly simple melodies with a rippling grace and ease; in No. 9 she engaged the Mozart Chamber Orchestra in a lighthearted dialogue that rang with all the gusto of a back-porch gossip fest. And her reading of the passionate No. 20, the most popular of Mozart's piano works, was clean refinement and intense drama. It was impeccable Mozart throughout, original without being eccentric, introspective without...
Nation's Business, the publication of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, pays no taxes and gets the jump on Business Week and FORTUNE, which do. The tax-exempt Journal of the American Medical Association, which rang up a record $10.5 million in advertising revenue last year, drains pharmaceutical advertising from tax-paying Medical Economics and Medical World News; by running ads for such products as soft drinks, margarine and soap, it also competes with general-circulation magazines. Thanks in large part to its tax-exempt status, the National Geographic is able to offer lower advertising rates than its competitors...
This is not a silent film, but most crises are followed by melodramatic reaction shots. Count the seconds whenever an interlocutor throws hands in air. One of Hamlet's reactions, after he's thrown down his mother in her chamber, lasts even after a cut. When Hamlet asks Ophelia, "Shall I lie in your lap?" we cut to a bevy of damsels cowering in unison like chorines...