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...Beethoven. In his concert days, when he was not singing along, Gould liked to conduct himself with whichever hand he could free at any moment. So it is not surprising that he has finally got around to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The piano transcription was written by Keyboard Demon Franz Liszt, meaning that both hands are too busy for shenanigans. Gould plays it in respectful dedication to both Liszt and Beethoven. The Fifth is largely free of Liszt's frequent pianistic bombastics and remarkably faithful to the original-save for an occasional missing dissonance. "Liszt removed them," says...
...flashing across the ocean in wild greyhounding leaps; the 50-lb. wahoo that expired without a peep on the end of 80-lb. test lived up to his name on 20 lb.; the 10-lb. bonefish that rolled belly up on 20 lb. became a raging demon on 6-lb. or better still, 4-lb. test, ripping off line so fast that it sounded like a sheet tearing. Says Pete Perinchief of Bermuda's top-rated Anglers Club, which hosts an annual tournament limited to 30 lb. and under: "If a guy down here says he's using...
20th Century-Fox now takes orders from Richard Zanuck, 33, executive vice president in charge of production. A tough, laconic demon for physical fitness (he does 50 push-ups a day before starting work), Darryl Zanuck's only son sometimes talks like one of the old-time tyrants. "I'll practically do anything short of murder to achieve what I want," he says. After graduating from Stanford and serving as an Army lieutenant, he got his first film job as production assistant on his father's 1957 version of The Sun Also Rises. In 1962, Darryl Zanuck...
Playwright William Gibson, 53, best known for The Miracle Worker, is a demon letter writer as well. He heard the talk about 206,000 more troops for Viet Nam and fired off a guided missive to the Berkshire Eagle from his home town of Stockbridge, Mass. "I am offering in all sobriety a reward of $25,000," he wrote, "to anyone who devises and successfully executes a plan to draft Lyndon B. Johnson, put him in uniform complete with butterfly net, and ship him off to the rice paddies." Potential applicants for the prize may be put off by Gibson...
...introduce another helpful metaphor to capture Desire's demon trick, time, the medium as message. You know what a dream looks like? Disjointed, jarring, a succession of pictures in queer sequence. Think about dreams, then try to take a close look at this movie. It's impossible. Desire unfolds at a curious distance as if its people and actions were washed in the gideon colors of Dream. The salient elements of Dream are speed and deliberation. Desire approximates both. The plot careens arrogantly through a disequence of scenes, no connections provided: the junkyard; Twelvetrees in a hallway, in a bathroom...