Word: maestro
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...desk to the Oval Office and even to the President's putting green, working to muster all the pieces for a strong strike against Saddam. And it was Berger who went on TV to explain that Saddam's capitulation wasn't good enough. His co-workers call him a maestro--the man who puts together foreign policy and helps the President choose actions...
...arena Starr enters Thursday is nothing like the well-mannered setting of the courtroom. The hearing could look more like a World Wrestling Federation match, a forum where Starr's words could be drowned out by jousting between, say, Barney Frank, Democratic maestro of the verbal stiletto, and Bob Barr, the humorless but relentless Republican former prosecutor. The House Judiciary Committee includes some of the most ideological members of each party, politicians more likely to go for the jugular than the essence of a witness's arguments. Starr will have to defend the logic and fairness of his actions...
DIED. FRANK YANKOVIC, 83, a.k.a. America's Polka King, maestro of Midwestern dance halls for seven decades who won the first ever Grammy for the folksy musical genre; in New Port Richey, Fla. Yankovic pumped his first accordion at age nine and soon took his signature Slovenian-style polka show on the road. Devoted fans, some known to have ripped off his clothes, won his devotion in return: he played so many one-night stands that he missed the birth of all 10 of his kids...
...fanfare began with a thoughtful and fitting video tribute to Seiji Ozawa's life and legacy Boston mayor Thomas Menino good-naturedly fumbled his tribute to the maestro, mispronouncing his name and misnaming the chorus. Finally, before the Symphony began, Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart and Pops laureate conductor John Williams led the BSO in the "Star Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful." Their presence was not previously announced, but would have been sorely missed...
...only surprise of the afternoon was the absence of the honoree, Maestro Ozawa himself. He had been seriously ill all week--so sick that he could not conduct even conduct opening night at the Symphony on Wednesday. He would appear to conduct the fourth movement only. Brand-new assistant conductor Federico Cortese received the brunt of this surprise. Sunday's command performance was his first with the BSO, and with Beethoven's Ninth and an audience of 100,000 on the Boston Common is more than any conductor should expect in a lifetime, not to mention the first...