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...curios, who natters engagingly about arcane ( matters and who, when you ask for a snack, whips up a feast too big for one tummy or a hundred. Don't tell Russell that less is more; he'll say that too much is not nearly enough. His films (The Devils, Mahler, Altered States) are unguided tours of aesthetic excess. They turn classical composers into heavy- metal hellions, history into ranting nightmare, the Great Books into underground comics...
...MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (EMI). Revivifying. Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony breathe fire into Mahler's mystical "Resurrection" Symphony...
...Schorr claims, is the world leader in applied artificial intelligence, Du Pont is running close behind. Ed Mahler, the Delaware multinational's program director for artificial intelligence, says the company currently has 200 knowledge systems in use and expects to have 2,000 systems running by 1990. The reason for the explosion, according to Mahler: knowledge- processing technology is now affordable, and even the most sophisticated systems are available on personal computers...
...carrier black flies. But in many areas the insects developed a resistance to the sprays. Enter ivermectin. The drug works by attacking the primary cause of the disease, the worms. Although it does not kill the invading parasites, biannual doses of ivermectin can prevent them from reproducing. Predicts Halfdan Mahler, director-general of WHO: "Ivermectin will revolutionize the way countries face this debilitating disease...
...review of Leonard Bernstein's unflattering biography ((MUSIC, May 18)), Michael Walsh's dismissal of Lenny as a musical self-parody is absurd. The excellent Vienna Beethoven cycle, along with Bernstein's first-rate Schumann, Haydn and Mahler, is testimony to Walsh's aesthetic silliness. Although several of Bernstein's recent compositions have been less than successful, that situation does not constitute proof of Bernstein's artistic irrelevance. Babe Ruth struck out more than most hitters, yet his niche in Cooperstown, N.Y., remains secure. Whatever his personal flaws, Bernstein is a powerful, worthwhile musical presence...