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Last week Ponti began a recital at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall with a Beethoven sonata at 7:50 p.m. By 8:20 he had flung himself into one of the fiercest challenges in the entire piano literature: both books of Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Paganini. He continued with Chopin's powerful Sonata in B Minor, another sonata by Scriabin, a wrist-cracking Etude for the Left Hand by Blumenfeld, and finally Stravinsky's Three Scenes from Petrouchka, a piece that bristles with so many notes that much of it is written on three...
...fiercest battles in the war of the word, however, is being fought over the use of Mrs. and Miss...
...match-up of the Aquarians and their teams-little old Miami (the Cinderella team) and big bad Dallas (the fiercest force in the West)-has stirred more than the usual frenzy among the nation's pro-football freaks. In Miami, where attendance at home games averaged a meager 34,687 just two seasons ago, more than 78,000 screaming, hanky-waving "Dol-fans" jammed the Orange Bowl last week to watch their beloved Dolphins score a stunning...
...medical bureaucrats obviously misjudged the national reputations of both Medvedevs and the courage of their eminent friends, who besieged officials up and down the Soviet power pyramid. The fiercest outcry came from Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who condemned punitive psychiatry as "spiritual murder...
...place is almost totally impersonal, the fiercest personality around being without a doubt Lobo, a German shepherd trained to eat anything, black or white, that's squeaky and carries an autograph book. The family's closest friends have to wait outside in their cars in the parking lot and call up to the window, "Is Lobo O.K.?" The kids hold the raging beast down, inside the house, until a split-second before the visitor comes in the front door. Then Lobo is allowed to rush out the back door, a tornado of bristles and snarls, in a vain...