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Aja is the most unique and original album released this year. The album cover is unDanly suave; a mysterious portrain of an exotic woman, it is its own glossy message, carefully designed and stated. There are not bad cuts, but there are several excellent ones. "Aja" and "Deacon Blues" stand...
Each fall the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center serves as a 2½-week primer on the state of world cinema. This year, as usual, there is a heavy emphasis on big-name European directors (Bertolucci, Buʼnuel, Pasolini, Bresson), a shortage of American movies, and a...
Another desperate young drug addict plundering to maintain his habit? Not at all. Defense Attorney Ellis Rubin, 52, claims Ronald Zamora is hooked on something far less exotic. Rubin's unusual trial strategy: to prove that Zamora is innocent because he "was suffering from and acted under the influence...
Elsewhere, he insists that "it was not playing for myself that had spurred my three-year-old ambition, but playing what others might want to hear and thus forging contacts between human beings." The emphasis, if not the timing, is wholly believable, for Menuhin's autobiography is above all a...
For starters, Lelong Drive, leading up to the city's Museum of Art, was painted a kind of Nile blue. The Fairmont Hotel opened a tent restaurant outside the museum with such specialties as Sphinxburger, Queen Nefertiti's Salad and Ramses' Gumbo. Bourbon Street Exotic Dancer Chris...