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...country's most talented and experienced journalists and is headed by Editor Jeff Penberthy, 43, who has worked in the U.S. and Japan as well as his native Australia for a variety of newspapers and business magazines. Penberthy's task will be to give TIME an Australian idiom while at the same time preserving the magazine's international character. Says he: "International events and impressions of this country abroad are having a critical effect on the Australian economy and affecting the daily lives of ordinary Australians. Naturally our awareness of these matters is rising, and for this reason the joint...
...Bartok Second Violin Concerto, a haunting, elegaic slow movement inspired by a mournful tune Bolcom heard whistled on the New York City subway and a riotous finale that is an homage to the late jazz fiddler Joe Venuti. Bright and accessible, the concerto is steeped in a popular idiom. "You don't have to tell people what it means," observes Luca, who is Rumanian born and Israeli raised. "The wonderful thing about playing it is that it is analogous to Mozart playing his works in Vienna. It is part of the lingo...
Dobrynin understood the American idiom and psychology, unlike most ambassadors. In the U.S., he was a hale fellow with a ready stock of one- liners and an indestructible alimentary canal. In Moscow or summiteering with his bosses, he faded into the background and became another cold-eyed lackey who, as he once did, jumped up and down like a kangaroo to open and close windows to accommodate Brezhnev's delicate health...
...printed musical score, Muti brooks no interpolations in his concert versions of Verdi operas, like last October's Rigoletto, which adhered rigorously to a new scholarly edition of the opera, or his 1983 Macbeth. This unsmiling view of what were once popular entertainments, steeped in a popular idiom, is at odds with the spirit of the composer he professes to serve. And in recasting the sound of the orchestra in line with today's international ideal -- brighter, crisper, sharper -- he has rendered it almost interchangeable with other crack ensembles, such as the Chicago Symphony and the London Symphony...
...Democratic Party should not base its future on candidates comfortable with the political idiom Reagan uses so well...