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PAULINE KAEL called it "the cattleprod," the theory being that today's audiences are so numb from perennial TV that a movie in a theater needs a long blunt instrument wired with several hundred volts and applied to an armpit, perhaps, or some appropriate erogenous zone, in order to elicit the merest twitch of a response...
...long as he was classified as a blues singer." It was clear that few black people would ever rush to hear what he was about or learn what his music had to say. Not to mention criticism for his use of the banjo--a so-called white-washed instrument since country and western performers began thriving with it. As a result. Taj until recently, found himself playing his music to predominately white audiences in a predominately white band...
Died. Marcel Grandjany, 83, French-born harpist and professor at the Juilliard School of Music; in Manhattan. Grandjany's gifts as performer and composer helped raise the harp from a musical decoration to a full-fledged solo instrument. Among his compositions: The Colorado Trail, Children's Hour, and Fantasy for Harp...
Died. Lionel Tertis, 98, English viola virtuoso; in London. Born in 1876, on the same day as Cellist Pablo Casals, Tertis campaigned successfully to persuade composers to write solo pieces for his chosen instrument. For more than four decades Tertis was Europe's premier violist, playing with such friends as Casals and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, who joined him for a celebrated recital of Brahms' C Minor Piano Quartet during a London blackout in World War II. The Tertis viola, which he designed after his retirement, remains the choice of many leading concert performers...
Inevitably, arms exports are an instrument of foreign policy. In the years immediately following World War II, arms-exporting states carefully weighed ?and often rejected?offers from foreign customers. The U.S. has exported weapons in order to bolster anti-Communist regimes; a congressional act of 1951 explicitly forbade sales to neutral nations and insisted that purchasing countries contribute to "the defensive strength of the free world." To the Soviets, arms sales to the Middle East have been a means of challenging Western influence. By transferring arms to India, the Russians sought to create a regional counterforce to Peking...