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...CHILD would appreciate the colors and patterns of a Lichtenstein. The lines are crisp, elegant, simple, classical. The colors are bright, true, eloquent, joyful. They really are a sensual delight to look at. What more appropriate reason...
...wretched thing for an artist to leave his homeland and his native sounds, whether musical or verbal. Perhaps because Shostakovich had to bend his inspiration to the will of the state, the quality of his work varies widely. There are, however, his passages of genuine beauty, crisp wit and sheer energy of genius. For those, it is impossible to name a successor...
Despite his playboy image-reinforced by his jaunty way of peacocking about in an ever-crisp uniform-Saraiva de Carvalho has proved himself to be a tough, if opportunistic leader. Born in 1936 in Lourenço Marques, the capital of Mozambique, he first aspired to a theatrical career-in fact his parents named him for Shakespeare's Othello. Since his family lacked money for acting lessons, he joined the army instead. He served for five years in Angola and for three in Guinea-Bissau under Spínola, who, in a never forgotten slight, excluded the brash young...
With those crisp words, in an unscheduled radio broadcast on All India Radio last Wednesday, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced the temporary suspension of civil liberties in the world's largest democracy and second most populous nation (600 million). It was, both for Mrs. Gandhi and for India, a dangerous gamble that caught her political opposition off guard and shocked much of the rest of the world. Assuming extraordinary powers under the emergency decree, Mrs. Gandhi inaugurated a nationwide roundup of her political opponents. At week's end, the government admitted that more than 870 people had been...
...Meto, as the Japanese call the visitors. The ticket holders sat still and intent during the opera. Not a late straggler nor a cough marred the concentration. The company had just finished its annual spring tour of the U.S., which featured Traviata, and so the production was in crisp form. Conductor Richard Bonynge slowed up now and then for the singers' benefit, but the orchestra, playing with precision and rich texture, expressed most of the considerable drama in Verdi's score...