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Without question, the major turning point in my life was in 1954, the first time I heard Karl Bohm and the Vienna Philharmonic. I went into what I think is the finest concert hall in the world, the Musikverein of Vienna, and heard one of the great orchestras play Brahms. I didn't know such a sound existed...
...million. C&A in December decided to take its case to Germany's highest court. "We think we are in the right," says a spokesman. These days it's Aldi that has been making waves as it transforms the German retail landscape. Owners Theo and Karl Albrecht took over their parents' grocery store after the war and built it into a retail powerhouse. To keep costs - and prices - down, the stores are deliberately Spartan and understaffed, and feature a restricted number of staples, about 700 in total. The formula has been a smashing success: in the low-margin world...
...Dukas', and was much beyond anything the Pierian has attempted before. Yet it was rendered with at least as much feeling and as good technique as the programs of the recent annual concerts. The concert was attended by a very large audience, including such eminent musicians as Dr. Karl Muck, Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Mr. Max Zach, Conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; and Mr. Chalmers Clifton, Conductor of the Cecelia Society...
...word imperial domination in its purest form.” In Higonnet’s bad America “pluralism is a mask for special interests, a Christian America (Ashcroft), bursting with revolvers (Cheney), arrogant (Rumsfeld), imperial (William Kristol), racist (Trent Lott), opportunist (Condi Rice), partisan (Karl Rove), the America of spying and denunciation (Poindexter).” Europe, he says, “sooner or later, will have to separate itself from the new America...
...seems. Days before its January show featuring models swamped in giant brocade kimonos, Christian Dior announced sales were up 50%. Not of kimonos but of shoes and bags and sunglasses, bought by those wowed by the couture. And then there's Chanel, where the more wearable couture created by Karl Lagerfeld reportedly turns a profit. Women who pay more than $10,000 for a dress want to be able to wear it, after...