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Hogwood traces his interest in "historically informed" performance to his early activities and studies, and, above all, the influence of Cambridge musicologist Thurston Dart: "When I was at school and heard Thurston Dart talking on the radio, I really thought his stories of the detections of flaws and fakes and historical and musicological chain of investigation as he put it over was as exciting as an Agatha Christie, that all the more because I find Agatha Christie boring. So this was my sort of detective story...
...that the rest of Europe used the word, was strongly there. I liked source material; I liked asking the question. I liked looking for contradictions of accepted views, and it was the way of thinking that lay behind classical scholarship and it was very much the way the Bob Dart behaved...
...interview with Louise Erdrich took place while she was trying to hold onto her "wonderful, healthy" active eight-month-old baby (ten and a half pounds at birth!) in Cornish New Hampshire, and I was trying, in New Jersey, to hold onto my $1.99 rubber dart gun gadget from Radio Shack that allows you to both tape and talk to someone on the telephone [emphasis hers...
Tactics that raw have disappeared from Harkin's script, but he often declines to let accuracy ruin a witty line or blunt a political dart. Angry that Bush may provide emergency assistance to the Soviet Union if food shortages worsen, Harkin says that G.O.P. niggardliness toward elderly Americans will force many of them "to choose this winter between heating and eating." Harkin dismisses the possibility of starvation in the Soviet Union: "I keep seeing these pictures of Russians. I've never seen a picture of a skinny one yet." When he argues for rapid reduction of U.S. forces in Europe...
...helicopter stalks a polar bear, following paw prints in the snow. The bear suddenly appears as a hint of movement, white against white, padding its way across the ice. The helicopter descends, hovering over the frightened creature, and a shotgun slides out the window, firing a tranquilizer dart into the massive fur-covered rump. Minutes pass. The bear shows no effects. The helicopter drops for a second shot. This time the bear stands its ground, and the pilot, fearing the animal is about to lunge for the aircraft, abruptly noses the chopper skyward. He remembers how a 9-ft. bear...