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...centerpiece of the program was Zorn's "Memento Mori." This is Zorn's fifth work for Kronos, and it has much in common with his earlier pieces. Zorn's compositional method is to compile a huge set of musical ideas, each notated on a filing card and lasting a few seconds; cartoon soundtracks are his major influence. While Kronos's attention span is not yet as short as Zorn's, there has been a disturbing tendency in their recent programs toward more and shorter pieces, and toward music with an easily grasped selling point. It is saddening...
...final inning of the semifinal game between baseball's archrivals, Cuban first baseman Lourdes Gourriel -- on his way back to a bankrupt island -- wished American Phil Nevin every success in the major leagues. By week's end, all those who came were leaving with some such memento: with a large round weight around their necks, or a picture of themselves with Magic Johnson; with shaved heads or ruptured tendons. Barcelona has long been famous as a city of artists and laborers, a "city of marvels" where discipline and flight converge. Now, to the famous roll call of its industrious dreamers...
Perot has acknowledged lately that Margot's $1,000 check to get EDS started, which he keeps as a memento, represented only the registration fee Texas required to charter a new corporation. He and his wife had, and used, a great deal more than that to launch EDS. Perot was making $20,000 a year as a part- time employee of Texas Blue Cross-Blue Shield, and Margot brought home a second salary as a full-time schoolteacher. This, however, is a rare case of Perot deflating a tall story; more distressing than any of the disputes about individual incidents...
SIGHT UNSEEN. A trendy artist revisits the woman who first inspired him and tries to steal the sole memento of that time, a portrait of her. Writer Donald Margulies weaves a glittering web of satire about the art scene, the media, the exploitative side of creativity and rueful romance. This off-Broadway succes d'estime has vaulted to a commercial...
...Kremlin, once the seat and symbol of absolute power, now has the air of a museum, a sprawling, drafty memento mori of the old regime. The long corridors are eerily silent; the guards seem listless. The nameplates on most doors have been removed. Many rooms are not just empty; they seem abandoned. Boris Yeltsin has moved in, but a number of his advisers have stayed behind at the Russian Parliament to massage legislators who are restless -- if not rebellious -- over the price their constituents are paying for reform...