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Gucci's sexy but sleek designs still press all the fashionistas' buttons, but the firm has been buffeted by other ill winds, from the ongoing trial in Italy of Patrizia Gucci (charged with murdering her ex-spouse Maurizio Gucci, grandson of the company's founder) to worries about the fallout from the Asian financial crisis. Last September, when De Sole announced that profits growth for 1997 would be lower than expected, Gucci stock plummeted almost 20% in one day. Sure enough, the company announced last week that this year's first-quarter net profit had dropped 10% from last year...
...word about the pianist. He's big. Buff. With dreads. He sits lower at the piano than Glenn Gould did. It's often hard to count the "f"s in his fortes. That's Awadagin. In other words, after Maurizio Pollini's recital last month, it was "time for something completely different...
Last Sunday Maurizio Pollini pleased a packed Symphony Hall with a program of Chopin and Debussy that can only be described as populist, plain and simple. Choosing so many warhorses and so few dark horses was not, however, merely a safe bet. It also gave him the chance to play them better than, well, anybody...
...BankBoston Celebrity Series continues to bring the best performers, especially pianists, to the Boston area. Though keyboard buffs are no doubt already antsy for the November 16 Awadagin Pratt recital, it would be hard to imagine a better season opener (or box office draw) than the great Maurizio Pollini...
...each helps make the other possible. But they are different worlds. Two Beltways. The office nameplates along @Large Software's one short hallway are an inspiration. They read like a 1990s version of Hollywood's World War II bomber crew. There's Andy Bang, Co Huang, Sharam Sasson, Maurizio Gianola. Edward Montgomery shares an office with Yuri Zhovnirovsky, Roberto Jeres bunks with Jen Yu, and Alex Sherstinsky is doubled up with Samir Elias. Pamela Reilly, Karen Cooper and Steven Kishi are down the hall...