Word: magnum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characters in a quieter, more reflective way. Nor were villains dispatched bloodily three years later in Honkytonk Man, a melancholy movie about a drunken musician in which Eastwood starred with his son Kyle. "I'd hate to look back on my portfolio someday and think, 'Well, I did 100 Magnum films and one car-wreck film," he said after Honkytonk Man was released. "I'd like to think that I had a broad career of various types of films and roles." Unfortunately, nobody out there but Eastwood was paying much attention. The film was a bomb...
THOUGH KNOWN AS THE SUPREME VIOLIN virtuoso whose personal eccentricities and wizardly playing combined to make him music's first superstar, Niccolo Paganini was also a superb guitarist. The instrument figured in all his published work during his lifetime except his magnum opus, the ferociously demanding 24 Caprices for solo violin. It seems just, then, that the guitar virtuoso ELIOT FISK has recorded his own transcriptions of the pieces (MusicMasters Classics). What amazes throughout is Fisk's ingenuity in finding the equivalents of, say, legato and ricocheted bowing on his plucked instrument, and his dexterity in executing them with such...
...There is an appropriate means to deal with one's marital problems -- legal recourse. Not a .357 Magnum," argues former Florida prosecutor Bill Catto. "If you choose to use a gun to end a problem, then you must suffer the consequences of your act." Defense lawyers call it legitimate self-protection when a victim of abuse fights back -- even if she shoots her husband in his sleep. Prosecutors call it an act of vengeance, and in the past, juries have usually agreed and sent the killer to jail. Michael Dowd, director of the Pace University Battered Women's Justice Center...
...week ago at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, over sturgeon, chips and a magnum of champagne (or was it a cup of tea?), the British novelist, Julian Barnes, famous for his inscrutability, consented to let me interview him. The official photographs of Barnes show a darkly brooding, almost Mephistophelean presence. He is in real life, taller and blonder than one would ever dare imagine, inhabiting a room effortlessly and completely. He is neither tweedy like Michael Holroyd nor dandiacal like Tom Wolfe and sits coiled in a too-small armchair. His presence is gently mocking. We tacitly acknowledge...
...understands the infinite allure and necessity of mystery. In an era when too many novelists traffic in meaningless psychobabble, Barnes' novels represent a continent of hope. His work reveals that the obituaries lamenting the death of the novel are premature. A new Barnes' novel demands a magnum of champagne...