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Like Casals, Slava is an unabashed romantic. Cradling his Strad between his legs?or, more precisely, embracing it???he seems to pour his Russian soul into every phrase, bowing long, singing lines with a subtle eloquence and a purity of tone. His technique is flawless. Modern composers lay finger-mangling minefields in the thickets of their pieces, but Rostropovich negotiates them with cheerful ease. "I don't even know why my hands do certain things sometimes," he says. "They just grab for the notes." His dynamic range, from the greatest fortissimo down the line to a pianissimo that comes...
...rubber-stamp Cortes into voting itself out of existence by approving a reform bill that provided for a new bicameral parliament. After abolishing the National Movement, Suárez moved to legalize the Communist Party, convinced that the Communists were more of a threat outside the system than in it???and aware that there would be protests in Western Europe if they were barred from political participation. In a deft stroke of timing, he chose Easter weekend, when most of Spain was on holiday, to act. So stunning was the news that the Radio Nacional announcer sputtered through the first bulletin...
...blew him back. A second hurled him onto the wing. He rolled off to earth, but his wife was thrown backward. Someone yelled at him: "Get out of there! It's going to blow!" Watching the flames in frustration, he saw a white shirt under the plane, rushed toward it???and pulled his wife away...
...that its language is probably too rough for most kids. That's all to the good. Better to be up front about the matter than to apply a censorious pencil to a script that derives considerable power not only from what its characters say but from how they say it???i.e., grossly...
...front page and banished ads from the first seven pages. Page six has been reserved for a mild stew of short, gossipy items?including last week's tongue-in-cheek rewrite of an Associated Press report that ten people in Argentina have been stung by ?you guessed it???killer bees, and a copy of a telegram sent to Murdoch by Screw Magazine Publisher Al Goldstein asking why his is "the only New York publication you haven't tried to buy? P.S. I have feelings too." This week Murdoch will add two pages of features and plans eventually to strengthen...