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...musical prince. To begin with, there is the clarinet's tendency to be loudmouthed and crass. It is the sharp-tongued marcher in high school bands, the instrument everyone loves to play badly. In orchestra pits, the clarinet is a foot soldier, sturdily seconding the melodies of the grander piano, violin and cello. Few composers have favored it with solo works. Few Benny Goodmans exist; although there have been outstanding clarinetists, they traditionally have belonged to orchestras and thus missed the dazzle of a Paganini or Casals. In short, clarinetists were not born to be stars...
...college--well, he couldn't understand what was happening in college so he dropped out, having decided to make some money in construction instead. No money in Kant or Hegel, he reasoned. There were plenty of philosophy students mopping floors until midnight for minimum wage, and Bobby had grander aspirations: he wanted a fast, sleazy car, a pool, a color TV, an air conditioner, a wife who looked like Cheryl Tiegs, and plenty of beer...
...Thoroughbred racing last Saturday by taking one of the most thrilling races in the history of the sport. They measured up to the demanding 1½-mile Belmont Stakes-"test of the champions" -and moved into the most select circle of racing royalty. Affirmed's honor was made grander still by the rousing challenge of his gallant rival, Alydar, who shadowed Harbor View Farm's chestnut in lockstep around the graceful, sweeping turns and down the long, open straightaways of New York's Belmont Park. At the wire, Affirmed won this race of matchless drama...
Often the series succeeds despite itself. The great Whig country houses have never looked grander, and it is almost worth the wait to see the enormous chair on which Edward VII weighed his celebrated guests at Sandringham. His great delight was to weigh them again when they left, after his seven-course lunches and twelve-course dinners, and see how many pounds he had put on them. The good moments aside, Royal Heritage is a well-meaning failure, proof that the British, who usually do these things so well, can, on occasion, also stumble and fall...
...architectural dictum "Less is more" can be applied to plays as well as buildings. A simple structure can be grander than an ornate one, and a few words from a great playwright can say more than volumes from a second-rater. No one has matched principle and practice as closely as Samuel Beckett. Some of his plays, indeed, are so spare that they can scarcely be said to exist: one new work is only 35 seconds long and dispenses with actors altogether, making use only of lights, sets and sounds...