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Lonetree was originally arrested late last year in Vienna. Charges against Bracy were filed about three months later, shortly before Secretary of State George Shultz was scheduled to arrive in Moscow for arms-control and summit discussions. The spy charges cast a pall over the Shultz mission; some State Department...
Presumed Innocent is strongest when it sticks to the facts, the gritty routine of trying to solve a puzzle by finding the pieces and hoping they fit. Rusty, who is the narrator as well as the central character, has been at his job long enough to sound persuasively disillusioned. He...
Executive Editor Ron Kriss directed this week's project with assistance from China-born Reporter-Researcher Oscar Chiang. Kriss served in South Korea while in the Army during the mid-1950s and later reported on China, then off limits to U.S. journalists, for United Press International from Tokyo. "I read...
The new piece, commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony for its 75th anniversary, is a 20-minute essay divided into four movements, each with a quotidian title: "Dawn," "Daylight," "Dusk" and "Darkness." Such tone painting is not surprising, for Harbison's music generally contains a strong theatrical element, reflected in...
Yet there is much that is evocative in the new work. In the preludic "Dawn" the themes gradually emerge and coalesce, blaze luminously and then recede. "Daylight" is a scurrying scherzo marked by buzzing strings, hiccuping brass and chattering woodwinds. The slow movement, "Dusk," is the work's emotional center...