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Nevertheless, Helms knew Moscow. "I studied the pictures and the reports that came across my desk," he said. He memorized the sad face of his principal adversary, longtime KGB Chief Yuri Andropov, who went on to run the Soviet Union before he died. Helms fought Andropov in the back alleys...
"I retire every night," says Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, who turns 70 in October. "Then I wake up the next day and go to work." Diz has no intention of curtailing his brilliant 50-year career. "Jazz is a hundredfold more popular now than it was when I was younger," he...
The next supernova to be seen by the naked eye happened only 32 years later, in 1604, in the constellation Ophiuchus, and its best-remembered witness was Brahe's former assistant Johannes Kepler. Unlike most supernovas, this one was seen before it reached maximum brightness, so Kepler's descriptions of...
The hipster approach will never attain the ultimate level of musical and dramatic rapture that is the supposed province of opera. But the Absolute Beauty or Bust approach is not always the best, particularly when dealing with the imperfections of baroque opera. Why shoot for the heavens, perhaps to crash...
About finding a successor for Lawton, Arcandsaid, "Oh heavens, you couldn't replace him.