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...Francisco-based Minton, 45, has devoted his career to the music of the '20s and '30s. With his dapper dress and trim moustache, the pianist even looks as if he could have stepped out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald story. Suesse is his special passion. At 20 he wrote a fan letter to the aging pianist, then living in Connecticut. Their correspondence blossomed into a friendship, and after hearing a tape of his playing, Suesse invited Mintun to visit her. When she moved to the Virgin Islands in 1975, she gave her protege her scrapbooks, recordings and, at a fraction...
FIDEL CASTRO COULD TAKE MANHATTAN if you let him [CUBA, Nov. 6]. He could persuade the U.S. to lift its trade embargo if he set Cuba free. How nice of him to shed his fatigues and don dapper new clothes. But he is still a devil--even if in a suit. The people he manages to impress never had to live in a communist country, never had to go hungry or be separated from their family. I am sick of people glorifying a man who is a criminal and who violates human rights. He tries to impress businessmen who want...
...purpose of Castro's p.r. offensive--and his dapper new suit--was very specific. He desperately wants the U.S. to end its 33-year-old trade embargo. With no more subsidies from the Soviet Union, the Cuban economy has almost ground to a halt. Normalized trade with the huge market 90 miles to the north would make all the difference in Cuba's fortunes, and the unfairness and foolishness of the embargo were the themes Castro returned to again and again. His suit, meanwhile, conveyed an aura of reasonableness that military fatigues, Castro's usual wardrobe...
...last Thursday, Richard Holbrooke strode into the seventh-floor study that U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher favors for informal staff meetings. Like his boss, Holbrooke was in shirt sleeves. But unlike the dapper Christopher, the chief U.S. negotiator on Bosnia looked rumpled and exhausted. More than five weeks of shuttle diplomacy in a bid to bring peace to the Balkans had sapped him of the nervous energy that usually suffuses his ample frame. But if the sparks were not exactly flying off Holbrooke, the news he brought to Washington was electrifying enough. As a clutch of State Department officials...
...formidable West Coast jazz groups, the Liberation Orchestra and Quartet West. He met Jones three years ago, when both did guest turns on an Abbey Lincoln-Stan Getz album. Then, at a Verve Records anniversary celebration at New York's Carnegie Hall, Haden, with a little trepidation, cornered the dapper pianist backstage, proposing that they do an album of spirituals together. Jones agreed simply by starting to suggest song titles...