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...gifted with jazz as he is with Tchaikovsky. Rostropovich caught the spirit easily, bending his body into the music, shafting his cues with a vigorous baton, sculpting the shapes of sound with his left hand, now kneading, now pleading, now punching his fist to bring home a thunderous cluster of dissonance...
...each side will form-as Brezhnev has long demanded-the core of a new eight-year agreement. The ceilings, however, will be lowered (perhaps as much as 10%) from the Vladivostok limit of 2,400 launchers (including long-range bombers) of which 1,320 can be armed with the cluster warheads known as MIRVS (multiple, independently targeted, re-entry vehicles...
Largely ignored by critics outside Europe, the most important cluster of modern art exhibitions the world has seen this year is running (until Oct 16) in Berlin. "Trends of the Twenties," set up by the Council of Europe, contains four exhibitions: some 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos, models' posters, documents and every imaginable sort of artifact, from a suprematist teacup by the pioneer Russian abstractionist Kasimir Malevich to a Bauhaus gramophone. The exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama...
College students cluster in the lobby of a Pittsburgh Holiday Inn, taking a break from workshop sessions on how to sell textbooks in the summertime. Only the aberrant lounger among them would admit to not being a moviegoer. The students' age and educational bracket put them squarely in one of Hollywood's most devoted and tuned-in markets. Robert Redford or Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino could not walk through this crowd unrecognized; Brando might provoke understated pandemonium. Suddenly, the hottest actor now at work in films appears in the lobby and passes through. No one notices. Robert...
...Moluccans seek independence for their homeland, a cluster of 800 Spice Islands in the Indonesian archipelago, which they fled after the Dutch colonial empire collapsed in 1949 and an independent government in Jakarta took control. Even after 26 years of exile, the 40,000 Moluccans in The Netherlands have still not been assimilated into...