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While at The Tribune, Wolfe made his first foray into the style that has now become his trademark. As Wolfe writes in the introduction to The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, he travelled to California at the behest of Esquire magazine, researching a story on custom-made automobiles. When it came time for Wolfe to write the piece, he found that he could not capture the flavor of his experiences in traditionally antiseptic journalistic prose...
...foray into Berlioz marks a bold step for Norrington, who began his musical career as a tenor, founded the amateur Heinrich Schutz Choir in 1962 and was music director of the Kent Opera for more than 15 years. But it was not until he conceived his "Experiences" three years ago (first Haydn, then Beethoven) that the Oxford-born, Cambridge-educated musician achieved his current eminence. Norrington's contribution to the original-instruments movement is to push its boundaries forward from the Baroque and Classical periods into the mid-19th century. "Modern orchestras sometimes don't play Beethoven very well...
Ronald Reagan's recent foray into military machoism comes on the heels of a discovery that half of American high school students can't place the United States properly on a world map. How many of these kids, one wonders, know where Honduras is? And how many of these kids would be sent there, and even be buried there, should that ghost come alive...
Which raises the question as to whether Mallon should be writing fiction at all. In Segal's case, his work made bestseller lists, whatever its literary merits. But Mallon will not achieve similar popularity. And though he should not be shamed out of academia for his fictional foray, he should consider whether he wants to taint his critical reputation by writing schlock...
...Dukakis, the brief foray along Massachusetts Avenue was the first--and possibly the only--presidential campaign event in his home state, which will hold Republican and Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday along with 14 Southern states...