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...images once considered experimental are now becoming commonplace. Knockoffs of Glass's trademark repeating chords and arpeggios pop up in television commercials, movie scores and the New Age sounds of Windham Hill. Tharp's sinuous, explosive movements have been danced by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Free-form surrealism is the mainstay of the rock videos on MTV, and their most innovative directors, like Russell Mulcahy, have graduated to feature films. Probably not in the past half-century have the works of the avant-garde achieved such wide currency among mainstream audiences...
Then the Pentagon confirmed that last month, for the second time since April, a new SS-18, the mainstay of the Soviet strategic forces, exploded after a test launching, apparently because of a problem in the rocket's fuel system. No one suggested there was a major flaw in the SS-18 program. Nonetheless, U.S. observers emphasized the strategic importance of the missile to the Soviets, citing what former U.S. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft called its silo-busting capabilities...
...detectives, who have appeared in 13 novels, are the mainstay of a popularity that has seen more than 1 million copies of Rendell's books printed in English; she has also been translated into 14 other languages. Still, Wexford and Burden are fast becoming the bane of her career. Whenever Rendell makes a public appearance, readers are apt to tell her that they could do with fewer explorations into the midnight of the mind. Says the author: "It is very difficult for the creator of a series character to realize that he is very much more real and important...
Meanwhile, in the middle of America, thousands of the people Thomas Jefferson envisioned as the mainstay of our country are losing their farms, their homes, and their hope. Those who survive the agricultural rat race are forced to do things like slaughtering dairy cows to drive up the price of milk in order to pay the bank. This also bothered...
...will be delivered on September 4 and September 6, have been completely organized. Prince Charles will star on September 4 in the convocation entitled "Harvard and its Origins," and President Bok will lead off Saturday's festivities with a talk entitled "Harvard and its Family." All three convocations, the mainstay of the 350th celebration, will be held in Tercentenary Theater...