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...prices down with it. Now the same system, bruised but essentially unchanged, is trying to revalidate those prices in hard times by strumming on the theme that Victimhood Is Powerful. What has descended on Basquiat is not the "silent purple toga of Immortality" -- it's the loud purple haze of hype, all over again...
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY PIANISM IS shrouded in a golden-era haze, but just how good was it really? A new double CD from Pearl Records, THE PUPILS OF LISZT, provides some clues. Here are such pedagogic scions of the Hungarian firebrand as Eugen D'Albert, Moriz Rosenthal, Arthur Friedheim and six others. Even allowing for poor recording quality and the advanced age of some of the performers, what is remarkable is how ordinary most of the playing is. Only the dazzling if sometimes clumsy Rosenthal and the elegant Jose Vianna da Motta would get a second listen today. Friedheim...
...Saturday night, you're stumbling to a party through mists of rain, the brain clouded with a few spirits. At the soiree, as you leave your coat and gloves with the attendant, and your presence is announced to the assembled gathering, you suddenly see, through a passing haze of colored silk and crystal glass, a man/woman to your liking. Unfortuately the necessary preamble of introduction and mutual mental exploration simply isn't within your power. Call the spin-doctor. Along trots Dr. Spin, who meets your beloved's spinner. "Tony's on form tonight, a bit of drink, but nothing...
...partner, William Herndon, said Lincoln's genius as a lawyer was to concede all nonessential matters while he focused on the crucial part of any case -- what he called the nub. In pursuit of that, he was brilliantly logical behind his haze of concessions, his diffidence about ancillary matters: "He was not impulsive, fanciful or imaginative; but cold, calm and precise. He threw his whole mental light around the object." In stating the nub, he chose words "that contained the exact coloring, power and shape of his ideas...
...ways and may, to some extent, cancel each other out. Pinatubo's cooling effects could counteract the warming caused by greenhouse gases, at least over the short term. At the same time, El Nino's warming influence seems to have suppressed the early cooling effects of Pinatubo's global haze...