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...meanwhile, has just released a new CD, The Romantic Master, which is largely devoted to Wild's own dazzling transcriptions, among them the delightful Reminiscences of Snow White, a fantasy on Frank Churchill's music for the 1937 Disney animated film. But lest one think that Wild is all flash and no substance, his recent recording of Beethoven's thorny "Hammerklavier" Sonata, on the Chesky label, is grandly conceived and brilliantly executed, from the soulful (and lengthy) Adagio to the triumphant final Fugue, a supreme test of both fingers and musical intelligence. Wild's reputation may rest on his pyrotechnics...
...rare flash of offensive brilliance from a player known better for his bone-crushing checks and hard-nosed play bodes well for a team in need of some offensive spark. The Crimson will need all the goals it can get if it hopes to rebound from last year's disappointing 14-14-2 finish...
...years ago, the Hughes brothers, Allen and Albert, made Menace II Society, a violent melodrama whose film-school flash won kudos. Last year's top novice was Kevin Smith, with his clever, scratchy comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living...
Harvard football has definitely had a disappointing season to date. Yet in the midst of this frustration, Harvard's special teams have quietly displayed the consistency and occasional flash of brilliance one would not expect to find in a team with a 143 winning percentage...
Employees at aircraft giant Boeing are hoping for their own breakthrough. More than 32,000 members of the machinists union walked off jobs in Kansas, Oregon and Washington State on Oct. 6 after talks on a new contract broke down. Among the flash points was Boeing's growing practice of shifting skilled assembly-line work from U.S. plants to China in order to boost sales to that country. Says George Kourpias, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers: "I'm running the Boeing strike, and there's an excitement in the rank and file I haven...