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...hour begins and ends earlier. Conversation, in more fashionable circles, tends to center on the shortage of butane gas for cooking and whether to stay and support the Shah or get out. Then everyone says their thanks and farewells and leaves, only to become snarled in a huge traffic jam on their way home. Promptly at 9 the shrill of the traffic gives way to silence and a long low rumble: the Shah's tanks are once again rolling into position...
...good fortune) is the most radical and freewheeling of the young groups. An unusual combination of instrumentspiano, violin or viola, cello and clarinet?Tashi adds or subtracts members and friends for various pieces, which range from Schubert to contemporary Japanese Composer Toru Takemitsu. A Tashi concert is like a jam session of pros: the music sounds both spontaneous and polished. The four have recorded a superb version of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, one of the few major works written for their mix of instruments...
...Welch there? ... Bobby, Tom Lasorda here. Listen, I'm in somewhat of a jam here, and I was wondering whether you could help me out. It's the second game of the Series, we're up 4-3 in the top of the ninth, but the Yankees have runners at first and second...
...informal town criers, transmitters in a complicated nexus of jungle drums that would confuse Margaret Mead. Bernie Stolar, vice president of a small communications firm, first heard that Menachem Begin was in town after the Camp David summit when the taxi Stolar was taking to work encountered a traffic jam near the Waldorf-Astoria and his driver explained that Begin had just arrived. Shrugs Stolar: "It was news...
...concrete and detailed peace plan calling on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territory in return for what he regards as substantial security arrangements. These proposals, which the Egyptians are billing as "a new peace initiative," have an undisguised dual purpose. They just might succeed in breaking the log jam that has stalled the peace process. But if they are rejected by the Israelis, it could bolster Cairo's argument that Begin is the primary obstacle to peace. Sadat, in fact, is believed to have come to the U.S. convinced that Begin is less interested in a peace agreement...