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...charges against Hernandez forced the White House to accelerate its search for a blue-ribbon successor for the top job, a tricky matter since the nominee must be enough of an environmental advocate to withstand congressional scrutiny and yet fit in with the President's more minimalist approach to regulation. The leading contender was William Ruckelshaus, the first EPA administrator under President Nixon and now a senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser, a wood and paper company. But his industry connections may make him suspect to environmentalists. Said Democratic Congressman Edward Markey: "What we clearly need...
Raised in Glen Ellyn, Ill., a Chicago suburb, Anderson first studied the violin but decided to major in art history at Barnard College in New York City. Influenced by minimalists like Sol LeWitt, she tried her hand at sculpture. In the '70s, Manhattan galleries also featured musicians like Minimalist Composer Philip Glass, and Anderson gradually drifted into performance art. In one early conceptualist effort, she stood playing the violin while wearing ice skates implanted in a block of ice; when the ice melted, the piece was over...
...Democrats, and only recently have party leaders--including some presidential hopefuls--begun seriously backing plans for heightened military expenditures. It is time for Democrats to realize that their longtime blanket opposition to costly military programs has been misguided--and that there is a viable middle ground between the minimalist defense posture of Kennedy and the indiscriminate military spending of the current Administration...
...costume of unadorned white shirt and dark trousers, there is a deep warmth in his best works: Music for 18 Musicians (1976), one of Reich's longest (nearly an hour) and texturally richest pieces, infused with an uncharacteristic sense of brooding and menace; the Octet (1979), a sunny minimalist ode to joy; and Tehillim...
...fastest-rising minimalist composer-and potentially the most influential of all-is John Adams, a New Englander who now lives in San Francisco, where he is composer in residence with the San Francisco Symphony. Adams' music represents less of a conscious break with the past than either Reich's or Glass's; instead of reducing his music to the bare bones, Adams draws inspiration from composers like Beethoven, Mahler, Sibelius and Stravinsky. His works have a lushness and emotional depth largely absent in the ascetic though fundamentally cheerful sounds of Reich or the giddy, explosive rhythms...