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...superb jazz drummer who has played with all sorts of greats (John Coltrane, for example), but we must confess we have our doubts about how interesting it can be to listen to somebody play drums for two hours. If you think drums can work as a lead instrument, by all means go; if anyone can pull it off it's Haynes. Though Sunday...
Joseph F. Crangle, 42. "I grew up believing that the Democratic Party was the instrument for the common good, to correct social ills," says New York State's Democratic chairman, an issue-oriented politician. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, Crangle presented the only minority plank to be adopted: abolition of the unit rule, which opened the way to democratizing the delegate-selection process. A nonsmoking teetotaler who studied for the priesthood in his youth, Crangle was named chairman of the Erie County Democrats at 32. In 1971 he became state chairman and ever since has been trying to unify...
...sure, the press has generally been a willing instrument. At times, reporters seem even more preoccupied with Kissinger's image than he is. All it took was a few well-publicized dates with such Hollywood lovelies as Mario Thomas and Samantha Eggar to establish Kissinger as a "secret swinger." When Kissinger's role is less engaging, newsmen tend to look the other way. The press scarcely dwelt on Kissinger's embarrassing 1973 interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, in which he saw himself as a "cowboy-alone astride his horse." There was little journalistic wincing, either, over...
...remarkable movie is the result of an ingenious union of science and cinematography achieved by Dr. Motoyuki Hayashi, head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Tokyo's Toho University School of Medicine. Using advanced diagnostic instruments and time-lapse photography, Hayashi spent two years and $55,000 working in the university's laboratories and clinics to produce his masterpiece. His key tool was the culdoscope, invented in 1942 by Dr. Albert Decker, who is now with New York's Fertility Research Foundation. The instrument is a 12-in.-long tube, about the diameter...
...destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano," Rostropovich has said. "But this cannot be until there are more and great new works for the cello." Thus he has inspired composers such as Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Miaskovsky, Kabalevsky, Piston and Britten to write repeatedly...