Word: magically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the National Philharmonic was devoted to Bizet's Carmen Suite. It is a work familiar to both conductor and orchestra, but still excitement ran high. Stokowski's fabled white mane is now a bit thin and shaggy, but the long, tapered hands still work their expressive magic. So does his pinpointing look. "One conducts with or without a baton," he likes to say, "but it is the eye that really does...
...novel's bright comic surfaces compensate for its lack of depth. But not enough. With its clinical setting and the circle of didactic characters intended to illustrate moral predicaments, The Farewell Party finally seems like a molehill version of The Magic Mountain...
...midtown Manhattan, long queues snake around corners to the tiny frozen-yogurt parlors that seem to have sprung up everywhere. Washington too has dozens of stores selling the stuff as well as a cruising truck dispensing only frozen yogurt. "It's ice cream without guilt. It's magic," says the hopeful proprietor of Yogurt Yogurt, an Alexandria, Va., shop opening this week. The magic began four years ago in Cambridge's Harvard Square. There, in a hole in the wall called the Spa, William Silverman, a shrewd merchant, began selling the already popular cultured-milk product...
...Jarreau: Glow (Reprise). Jarreau is primarily a jazz singer with a scatman's vast repertory of swoops, glides and vocal glissandi. In concerts he adds his own million-dollar magic trick: he carries a band in his larynx - or so it seems when Jarreau fills in the melody with vocal imitations of instruments. He can even accompany himself, crooning the words of a sleepy ballad while making rhythmic clicks deep in his throat to provide a percussive counterpoint. Jarreau's vocal antics on this LP are confined to a guitar (Fire and Rain), flute (Glow) and bass (Hold...
...police are now involved in all societal diseases, and we are expected to find a magic cure," says Rosolio, who was visiting the U.S. to address a meeting of the National District Attorneys Association in Colorado on crime and terrorism. The inspector general has no magic up his sleeve, just innovative police methods to block what he calls "sophisticated, modern crime." Since taking over as chief of Israel's police force in 1972, Rosolio, a British-accented Sabra whose donnish manner masks a tough law enforcer, has added 5,000 men and women to the force. Though some gripe...