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...last piece on tonight's program is Walter Piston's Third Symphony, a warm, polished, slightly reticent work. The HRO's brass section, sometimes dicey, was wonderful here in rehearsal and Yannatos' tough love made its staccato playing even better. The slow turns of the oboe at the outset have an Italianate flavor (Walter's grandfather was named Antonio Pistone) and the tonal language is cosmopolitan: Piston, luckier than most Harvard seniors, won a Paine Traveling Fellowship after graduation. You'll want to listen in the third movement for exuberant music that Dr. Y wants to deliver in "band style...
...intertwined. But that is, at worst, a long-run threat. Board members expect the economic expansion to keep rolling, even though more slowly, not only through 1999 but also on into the following year. Forecasts that far ahead, of course, are always risky, the more so given the still dicey international situation. But it is worth noting that if the expansion lasts even through the first two months of 2000, it will break the 1961-69 record and become the longest in U.S. history...
...fashion world. As clothes became less flashy--as Versace gave way to Prada--designers turned to models who were less glamorous, so they wouldn't overpower the clothing. "Maggie Rizer, Erin O'Connor, Karen Elson--those three girls are idiosyncratic," says Gandee. "Maggie has freckles; Karen has kind of dicey skin. You don't look at them and say, 'That's a pretty girl.' They not only weren't the homecoming queen; they might not have been invited to the prom." Magazine editors don't have to be nice either...
...third of world output "are in depression or recession, and we're still counting"; Japan, the world's second biggest economy, "is still going down--it looks like a drop of 2% this year"; in Latin America, Venezuela and Colombia are in recession and Brazil is "in a very dicey situation," saddled with an overvalued currency. Argentina also "is at risk because a chunk of its exports goes to Brazil." Even Canada is "slowing down because of Asia"--and Canada and Latin America together account for more than 40% of U.S. exports...
...might prescribe it from time to time for students who simply can't relax," Dicey says. "On the other hand, we assume that yoga, meditation and massage are good for anyone...