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Particularly captivating were the viola-oboe duet and the deep rumblings of the timpani near the end of the first movement--think of the T running underneath the building all of you Wigg residents. The same all-encompassing, electrifying force galvanized listeners throughout the furious oscillation of the second movement's sometimes lamenting, sometimes triumphant phrases...
...meeting to leap to his feet and recite Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in English and from memory. (Nixon felt compelled to get out of his chair and declaim along.) In the Philippines last year at a soiree on the presidential yacht, Jiang danced the cha-cha and sang a duet of Love Me Tender with President Fidel Ramos. When Jiang finally met President Clinton, Ramos advised, "Surprise him with the song...
...world's largest condom producer (slogan: "Only the Feeling Gets Through"), to join the Turner Foundation-supported Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention for some counterprogramming. Starting this month, Fonda chatted up Lisa McRee on Good Morning America, taped a segment with Susan Molinari on CBS and sang a duet with Rosie O'Donnell. Sure, abstinence is the best policy, Fonda says, but not if it means losing the second-best policy: "About 90% of what we do is above the waist--give kids hope and an adult who cares about them, tell them not to have sex until they...
...second act, "Duet," performed by Martha Mason and George Whiteside, highlights the ability of this extremely talented cast. Like "Limning Twilight," "Duet" is more expressive...
...faithful's reaction to the Gates-Jobs duet was pretty much what anyone conversant with the Apple cult would have expected. "Mass suicide planned tonight in Silicon Valley," read a typical posting to the newsgroup alt.destroy.microsoft. And the MacWorld crowd booed Gates' image even more than Jobs' turncoat words. But there were cheers too. "Everybody was booing Microsoft," says attendee Mark Lilback, 24, "and then they were like, 'Oh, Bill Gates is listening to this,' and they started to applaud." Who could blame them? They knew the truth: they were a conquered kingdom's starving partisans. Booing Gates meant biting...