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...offered debut performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, a busy concert schedule, an $80,000-a-year teaching job at the State University of New York at New Paltz and a recording contract with Sony Classical. The recording contract, however, turned out to be a Faustian bargain: the pianist was expected to concentrate on the powerhouse Russian composers -- Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev -- rather than the Germans who were closer to his soul. Feltsman's constant chafing at the Russian fare, compounded by disappointing record sales, led Sony to drop his contract after two years...
...Faustian Bargain...
Tsongas also hammered Bush for hisanti-abortion stance, saying the president was"placating the Reagan right" and calling theposition "a Faustian bargain...
...Bush is basically a decent man whose decency, unfortunately, is about an eighth of an inch thick; a man whose personal decency masks, rather than enhances, his public role; a good person, if there's no reason not to be, but a sucker for a Faustian bargain. He can be had cheap -- political convenience will certainly suffice. And that's not nice...
...perhaps the most Faustian bargain of all, Earth Day St. Louis has accepted $15,000 from Monsanto, one of the largest manufacturers of pesticides and herbicides in the U.S. Before it jumped on the Earth Day bandwagon, Monsanto was better known for its abandoned PCB dumps in Indiana...