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Unapologetic about his identity today, Mixner appears decidedly conventional. Black cowboy boots are the only modest eccentricity in a wardrobe full of dark suits, crisp white shirts and suspenders to match his muted ties. He stands 6 ft. 1 in., and his weight fluctuates by a hundred pounds or more from year to year. His high-tech apartment-cum-office is decorated with a peace poster from the Eugene McCarthy campaign, which introduced him to Clinton, and framed photos of himself with the President and the First Lady...
...podium, Salonen projects an aura of crisp, businesslike authority. There is none of Mehta's grandstanding glamour; instead, the conductor he most resembles is his hero Pierre Boulez, guiding his players through the most intricate rhythms with unflappable aplomb. In 1985 Salonen signed an exclusive contract with CBS, now Sony Classical, and since then has issued a steady stream of albums (the best so far: Messiaen's formidable Turangalila-Symphonie and Grieg's Peer Gynt music). Already he is one of the few living maestros who can sell the standard repertoire on the strength of his name alone...
...good amount of credit is due to the Bach Society's Sarah Hicks and Evan Christ for directing very possibly the best orchestra that has played at a student production this year. Crisp and explosive, the strings also show an ability to caress and coax the ear in the in subtler arias. With the exception of several errors in the French horn solo in the second act, the orchestra meets the challenge of Rossini's score...
...until the blisters began to form. Upstairs, amid a growing mound of coffee cups, pizza boxes from Listrani's and burn bags filled with discarded drafts, the team was trying to compress Clinton's huge vision for America into a size-10 Treasury. By dawn Wednesday, there was a crisp stack of pages on Clinton's desk to be torn apart...
...sexual revelation is a dramatic stunt: Agatha Christie rewritten by Quentin Crisp. But the twist is also brilliant because it makes the relationship riper, the characters deeper. Flying in the face of every convention, the love story soars. Jordan calls his movie "a love story without sex, beyond sex. You think that love is the same thing as sex -- and it's not, is it?" Because they never do have sex, the lovers can hold on to their ideal images of each other as savior and beautiful woman. "It's my little joke about a marriage," Jordan says. "The ideal...