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...drawing more than one salary, owning rent-producing property, or riding around in limousines. Nyerere's own life-style must surely be one of the simplest of any chief of state; he is paid only $6,000 annually, and lives in a very modest beach house outside Dar es Salaam...
...markets in neighboring Kenya. Peasants who have to rely on the state-run distribution network spend days carting their harvests to central crop-collection centers. Once there, they often camp for weeks, sleeping atop bales of cotton or mounds of corn, waiting for cash payments to arrive from Dar es Salaam...
...Schumann the better: he simply does not feel the music. No problems with the Rachmaninoff. Here is the fabled Berman technique operating with all its power, speed and subtlety and calling to mind classic interpretations by Horowitz and, of course, the composer himself. The final album, Années de Pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage), ought to stand by itself for years. It is a wondrously assorted anthology of piano pieces, many of which were conceived during four years of wandering through Switzerland and Italy. From the revolutionary "trumpet calls" of the opening Chapelle de Guillaume Tell...
Long brings some unique gifts to his role. At 59, he has been in the Senate for just under half of his life (29 years) and is a master of its parliamentary maz es. His intellectual powers are impressive ?he can deliver a brilliant 30-minute speech after just five minutes of briefing ?and his homespun metaphors cut right through economic obfuscation. Pressed by Senate liberals on tax reform last year, Long responded with a scathing definition: "Tax reform means 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' " In the Senate club...
Kenzo Takada also scored a major breakthrough with his new collection. One of the originators of the Mao-now, peasant-chic look several years back, Japanese-born Kenzo, 38, has moved out of the Orient with clothes that suggest rollicking pirates (some of his models even wore black eyepatch-es), swashbuckling naval officers, and the Indians of the Raj, decked out in white duck and Nehru caps. Kenzo also displayed some opulent evening wear, notably a blue gown that exposed the model's left breast. (Who needs jewelry?) His fabrics?including linens and striped cottons?are more refined...