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...strings. An unusually quiet orchestra exquisitely realized the dissonance. (HRO is master of the loud; exuberant finales seemed continually to hit new heights of forte during the concert.) The dramatic dynamic shift was especially effective since the next movement, "Warrior," opened with a drum shot like a pistol crack and only became more intense after that. Every phrase in this movement seemed fraught with some deeper meaning, as ponderous strings led the orchestra to a profound conclusion and a transition to "Sleepy Bones," the last and perhaps loveliest of the movements. A lucid, delicate flute line passed...
Still more significant, however, will be thefinality Brandt will experience sometime withinthe next three weeks. Kowal and Russell have nextyear, when both will likely crack the startinglineup...
...course, just because Kendall is at the table doesn't mean the President is ready to eat. Starr is sure to find his protracted negotiations with William Ginsburg were a walk through the stacks compared to Kendall, a crack attorney who is likely to fight over every clause and phrase of any deal. But it may be that our long national episode of "Jerry Springer" is nearing the end -- of its grand jury phase, at least...
Alvarado concedes that "occasionally" someone with a good fake may make it past the I.D. checker at the door, but maintains that, "we have a pretty serious carding policy, most people don't even try." I ask him whether there was more pressure from the police to crack down in the wake of Scott Krueger's death, but if he has an opinion on the matter, he's not sharing it with me. He is willing to divulge that the Cambridge License Commission has been in a bunch of times this year. Still, he can't remember them having swept...
JAKARTA: Indonesia's legislature handed President Suharto "broad new powers" Monday to crack down on protests over the economic crisis, which is made worse by fear that the aging strongman plans to defy IMF conditions for a bailout. Those powers are reported to include the right to dissolve parliament and ban opposition parties. Since Suharto already controls parliament, the military and even those opposition parties that he allows to operate, the legislature clearly had some difficulty in coming up with any powers that Suharto hadn't already claimed...