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Except for one bried foray into Last Tango in Paris the superb player never even touched upon a single request for his old music--not even Encuentros--to his audience's dismay...
During the 1960s a new kind of artist seemed to be emerging in London: pictor transatlanticus. Amid mutterings of dismay about Coca-Colonization, Anthony Caro, Richard Hamilton, Richard Smith and others addressed themselves to New York City as their elders had directed their genuflections to Paris. "To have worked in New York did make a tremendous difference," Smith recalls. "It set you at a certain distance from other English painters. You could never pick up again with artists who hadn't been there, except as friends. You had a different set of references...
...political conservative, Khandakar is said to favor closer ties with Pakistan. Late last week Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became the first to recognize the new government. But the reaction in India was one of dismay and grief over Mujib's death. Said a government spokesman: "We held him in high esteem in India as one of the outstanding personalities of our time...
...couple of months ago when Jaws came out. But it's a funny kind of fear. It isn't just a shouting-fire-in-a crowded-theater kind of panic. It's more than beaches closing down, and lots of sweaty swimmers staying on grilled sands to the dismay of resort owners and confirmed bathers like William E. Buckley whose wife won't even go into the goddam swimming pool any more...
...fact that they were largely responsible for the revolt in January that dumped three committee chairmen and instituted about a dozen procedural reforms that weakened the traditional seniority system. The reformers wanted to make the House more responsive to new ideals and the will of the majority. To the dismay of the freshmen, the changes also further loosened party discipline. The liberal House Democratic Study Group has found that party unity on three of the attempts to override presidential vetoes was the feeblest in 20 years. In an unprecedented move, about 30 first-termers met recently with Albert and demanded...