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Americans are having trouble coming to terms with President Clinton's latest crisis. After two full days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal ? dubbed "Zippergate" by Geraldo Rivera; "Fornigate" and "Interngate" by others ? few can yet discern whether this is history as tragedy or as farce. The mood across the country is a mixture of shock, disbelief, amusement and outrage...
...next piece, Mozart's Symphony No. 35 (the "Haffner"), formed a striking contrast. By the clever concert arrangement, one could easily discern the differences between the two pieces and thus fully appreciate the latter, with its beautiful complexities of form, broadened musical imagination, and different instrumental voices. The orchestra conveyed these developments superbly. The symphony was named after Mozart's childhood friend Sigmund Haffner, to celebrate his elevation to the nobility. Appropriately, the first movement is full of pomp and flair, with dramatic octave leaps and running scales. The Andante is warm and almost romantic in style, though filled with...
...middle-aged member (preferably male) of corporate America yearning for a comprehensive guidebook to the conceptual foundations of the Internet and its seemingly interminable resources? Do you want to read about the lurid past of the Net and discern the direction of its evolution? If so, then Esther Dyson '72 has written a new Bible for you, alluringly entitled Release 2.0, A Design for Living in the Digital...
...interaction between the orchestra and the quartet, however, too often failed to achieve the kind of dialogue expected of a concerto. Certainly this expectation can be abandoned. Yet even without it, the piece was often too homogeneous, the sense of forward motion and development too difficult to discern...
Clinton can't use poor hearing to explain his failure to discern the roar of Whitewater, but it has possibilities for his current troubles. Experts agree that hearing loss is most pronounced at social events. All those coffees? He never heard a word that John Huang said. Was Roger Tamraz talking about a pipeline--or Nightline? Those pleas from Harold Ickes to make fund-raising calls? He turned a deaf...