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Some critics fault Pollini's recent traversal of the Beethoven sonatas as too mannered and conventional. This is doubtless unfair, but it came to mind during Pollini's starkly Olympian, unsmiling performance of the Scherzo. I think his motives are simply misunderstood: his "straight-act" approach seeks to rescue great works from the vainglorious fireworks of unprincipled wunderkinden. He is in every way a musical aristocrat...
...novels in question are such highly regarded works as Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres and Henry James' Washington Square, which open within a few weeks of each other, this strategy can be a little intimidating for the directors. The two movies allowed Leigh to play the devoted but misunderstood daughter of two men she knew as a child: Jason Robards, an old friend of the family's--she took the Jason in her name after him--and Albert Finney, "the first man I ever had a crush on," says Leigh. "We were riding the elevator in Paris...
...Palm Pilot" digital planners package everything from Tokyo time to Bobby Fisher's chess strategies in an efficient bundle of computer chips the size of your average remote control. Much like the coveted television accessory, however, the rare compu-planners have become sour status symbols, as misunderstood as the channel changer left for dead in a garbage can when its batteries...
With players who are nothing if not warmly enthusiastic and eager to ham up the absurdity, the ART's "encore performance" of "Shlemiel the First" is much like a family gathering. With two hours of somewhat shallow comedy, the love of relations (if somewhat distant and misunderstood) is still love. And it's good as long as you don't try to ponder the event the next morning...
...your item on the decline in the price of gold [BUSINESS, July 28], only part of my statement on investing in gold was reported. As a result, my position might be misunderstood. My complete statement was, "If the return on gold (price increase plus loan fee) is not the same as the return on other investments, there's no point to holding it." DALE HENDERSON, Associate Director Federal Reserve Board Washington...