Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly, Santiago appears to be a prosperous, industrial metropolis. That much of Kirkpatrick's distinction holds true. The capital, where a large plurality of Chileans live, is a lovely city of tree-lined streets, public gardens, monuments in grassy squares, a speedy, modern 10-cent metro that rivals the one in Paris, and stylish shops with bright displays and billboard ads. A far cry from the drab exterior of your average Eastern-bloc country...
Practical-minded modern Americans have been contemptuous of follies, those curious buildings meant only to charm and delight. But recent architectural fashion has been tending toward the fey, even the frivolous. This winter in the American heartland, form follows fantasy completely: in St. Paul and Galveston, Texas, local volunteers have just finished putting up elaborate municipal whimsies...
...photographs, will have to be dug out of storage. Worse, although the Supreme Court's Miranda decision was not handed down until four years after the killing, local rulings on its retroactive application may permit Hillery's attorney to exclude statements made by his client after his arrest. Stiffer modern rules on evidence gathering may also apply...
...Rene Duchable, piano (Erato; LP or CD). Franz Liszt, the archetypal piano virtuoso, wrote only one sonata for his instrument, but what a sonata it is! Bril liant, bombastic, tender, devilishly diffi cult, structurally innovative, the nearly half-hour work is the summa of romantic piano technique, and every modern pianist must test his mettle with it to claim Liszt's mantle. Most opt for a straightforward, flashy approach, hoping to conquer the piece by sheer dexterity. Duchable, a young Frenchman with an especially rich tone, adopts a more reflective attitude, which gives the sonata dramatic coherence. He treats...
...found the hall in the modern Havana convention center half empty. As many of the Cuban delegates milled in the foyer, drinking coffee and chatting, a fuming Castro grabbed the microphone and snapped, "We were just talking about discipline, and now some of the comrades are not even in their seats yet." Stung by the rebuke from their leader, the delegates began streaming back in, but it was an additional five minutes before Castro could renew his denunciations of government inefficiency...