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Stokowski had molded the orchestra into a peerless instrument that he controlled with finger-tip accuracy. Ormandy's achievement was not only to preserve Stokowski's legacy but, in some ways, to surpass it. He was no mere caretaker. If he lacked Stokowski's restless adventurousness in presenting modern music, he nevertheless championed new works by his contemporaries Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. If his scrupulously maintained low profile was the antithesis of Stokowski's flamboyant showmanship, he nevertheless insisted on a uniformly high performance standard, which can be heard on the hundreds of recordings he made with the Fabulous Philadelphians. Above...
...first avant-garde artist. Our time, with its craving for rapid and unnerving change in the look of art, was bound to love Caravaggio. He was called an evil genius, an anti-Michelangelo; his work was compared to an overpeppered stew, and it became a favorite pretext for centrist finger wagging in the 17th century...
...Material Girl ("Some boys try and some boys lie but/ I don't let them play/ Only boys that save their pennies/ Make my rainy day") are like an endless series of come-ons, all promise and no follow-through. Madonna's whole image, in fact, is like a finger-flip to feminists and earnest liberals. BOY TOY, says one of her most famous accessories, a belt buckle that competes for body space with various pieces of sacred jewelry - crucifixes, rosaries - that seem to be advertising some unholy sacrament...
...think that there's a lot that is dissimilar between the character and the person. It's no accident that he plays a lot of heroes. He plays somebody you can rely on, who will take care of whatever it is, from a kid's hurt finger to a murder to saving the galaxy. He has that quality...
...production credit association advised Cross to get longer-term financing so that his yearly payments would be lower. He got a loan from the Federal Land Bank. "We had to borrow from here," says Cross, pointing to one of his fingers, "to pay here." He touches another finger. "Then we borrowed from here to pay here." At the same time, the value of his land was dropping to $600 an acre. His two tractors, bought in 1968 and 1973, were wearing out. But he had paid $13,800 for the last one, and it would cost...