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...vote, Clinton invited Exon to the White House for a rare, ! hour-long chat over coffee in the Oval Office. A pipe smoker, Exon wasn't allowed to light up in the White House. But Clinton listened quietly while his guest talked, and encouraged him to spell out alternative cuts in spending, explaining that "nothing is locked in concrete." The next day, Exon voted for the extension...
...some kind. And having early in his career sensed an incompatibility between his political views and any austerity of style, Rzewski gradually adopted a quasi-19th-century romantic idiom with the intention "to establish communication [with], rather than to alienate an audience." His most famous work is a brilliant hour-long set of diverse variations for piano on a Chilean leftist anthem, "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" (1975). In the late '70s and early '80s Rzewski turned to American folk song and jazz for musical material and to environmentalism for political motivation. In 1987-88 he composed...
...hour-long show, financed entirely by the council, filled Science Center D to capacity. Students crowded the aisles and spilled out the back of the theater, giving new meaning to the phrase "stand-up comedy...
...Star Trek, the old NBC show and movie series, led inevitably to Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the top-rated syndicated series on TV. That show has in turn spawned Deep Space Nine, whose two-hour premiere this month drew a whopping 21 rating, higher than any other syndicated-series episode in history. And now a whole fleet of hour-long action shows is buzzing into prime time, in an effort to satisfy the audience's appetite for shoot-'em-up (and beam-'em-up) adventure. Network executives are taking heed: if these independently distributed shows continue...
Contacted by telephone at HMC's offices in downtown Boston last night, Meyer declined to comment on last week's hour-long meeting...