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Then he met American Composer John Cage, who was visiting Germany. "He was exotic," Paik says approvingly. "I hear about Robert Rauschenberg from him, and about other artists doing new things in New York. I think, 'Slowly, slowly, America is coming up.' "
As the industry's mantle spread around the world, new immigrant stars filled important character niches. The Latin lover: Rudolph Valentino (Italy); the noble warlord: Sessue Hayakawa (Japan); the tragic heroine: Pola Negri (Poland); the vamp goddess: Greta Garbo (Sweden). Nor was the flood stanched with the arrival of talking...
For decades deterrence has rested on the threat of retaliation. Thus, for both sides, the ultimate defense has been the ultimate offense. Large-scale defenses on one side would make the other side less certain of being able to pose a credible threat of retaliation. That would undermine deterrence. In...
George Crumb: A Haunted Landscape; William Schuman: Three Colloquies for Horn and Orchestra. (New York Philharmonic, Arthur Weisberg, conductor (of the Crumb); Zubin Mehta, conductor (Schuman), with Philip Myers, horn; New World Records.) Blessed with one of the most remarkable ears for sonority of any modern composer, Crumb has long...
For the record, this is the 14th James Bond film and the seventh to star Roger | Moore. The opening thrill sequence is once again a ski chase. The most exotic (or should one say grotesque?) of his several love interests (or should one say sex objects?) is the black pantheresque...