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...guys who own the most real estate in Los Angeles are Europeans. There are people coming over from Yugoslavia with hardly any money...a friend of mine came over from Czechoslovakia in '68 and he now owns four apartment buildings. Americans are still sitting on their asses waiting for it. Europeans are hungry because we don't have that much...
...country's business?" asked an Indiana woman. More approving was a woman from New York State: "I made my campaign contribution to Dean for a lot of reasons, but I knew my choice was right when I saw the photo of his kitchen. Those counters are as cluttered as mine...
...Although she admits to seeing Gould somewhat less since she got married, Greenberg knows they will always be close. "We're like a sister and brother," she says. "He's completely integrated into my life. I know I'm part of his family, and he's definitely part of mine...
...Daniel Harding, 28, England. Of all the musical professions, conductors tend to reach their peak in later years, after acquiring the life experience and authority to mine the deepest riches of an orchestra. None of which bothers Harding. "It is an older man's game," he concedes. "But the great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler made his debut at 19, so there are exceptions!" Harding is making his own rules. As a young teenager in Oxford he would conduct groups of friends on weekends. Artistically ambitious, he decided to try a rare piece by Schönberg, but found...
...final years. His meticulous studio register records 148 works for 1935, and only 25 for 1936, the first year of his illness; in 1937 there were 264, the next year 489, and the following year an astonishing 1,253. "I can hardly keep up with these children of mine," he wrote in December 1939. "They run away with me." Almost a decade earlier, Klee had accepted the Düsseldorf job with great expectations, happy to be free of the dissension breaking up the Bauhaus, the influential German Arts and Crafts school, where he had been a professor and artist...