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...includes Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff and all the other romantic concerto merchants beloved of tradition-minded concertgoers. But his huge repertoire also includes an astonishing variety of other works, among them the challenging yet accessible "new tonalist" music of American composer Lowell Liebermann, the vaporously lyrical cameos of Spanish miniaturist Federico Mompou and Hough's own twinkling transcription of Rodgers and Hammerstein's My Favorite Things...
Imagine a Mexican-American TV soap opera written with Federico Garcia Lorca's dramatic intensity and passion for female characters but produced with the randy exuberance of a soft-core-porn video. Then spread it all across the gritty black-and-white panels of a comic book. What you would get is Love and Rockets, the comics series created by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, known to the comixcenti as Los Bros. Hernandez...
...Sure, men have been called up on these sorts of charges - Cabinet appointees Ron Brown and Federico Pena and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer all faced similar accusations over the past 10 years - but not one of their eventual appointments was derailed by what was variously portrayed as delinquency or plain old carelessness. Meanwhile, Bush's EPA chief-designate, Christine Todd Whitman, narrowly escaped hired-help disaster during her 1993 gubernatorial run when it turned out her opponent had also hired an illegal worker, thus balancing the scales of wrongdoing...
...began to study under the Jesuits, who, he revealed to one interviewer, would attempt to channel young boys' sexual urges by encouraging them to masturbate to a statue of the Blessed Mother. Years later, while living at a now-famed students' residence in Madrid (where he first encountered Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali), Buñuel took his childhood game a step further by wandering the streets dressed as a priest...
Broncos freshman Federico Mattioli then beat sophomore Cillie Swart 6-1, 6-3, at No. 5, and teammate Scott Watters defeated another Harvard sophomore, William Lee, 6-2, 6-3, to pull Santa Clara to within one point. The final two matches would decide the outcome...