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Firms such as Boise Cascade, United Brands, Archer-Daniels-Midland and Lone Star (a big cement company), as well as Coke, either opposed Helms-Burton quietly or ducked the issue. Observes Robert Muse, an international lawyer who represents Amstar, an American sugar company with $81 million in property claims in Cuba: "Helms-Burton does not have a lot of support among big American companies because it threatens to complicate their re-entry into Cuba as well as U.S.-Cuba relations after Castro...
...path that led to Carnegie Hall started off in the Vancouver suburb of Nainamo, British Columbia, where Krall was born 30 years ago. Canada might not be New Orleans, but its native jazz greats include Oscar Peterson and Gil Evans. Nevertheless, Krall sought her muse south of the border. While still in her teens she left home to study jazz piano at Boston's Berkelee school, then moved on to Los Angeles, where she befriended the great bassist Ray Brown, a veteran of Peterson's band. Brown taught her the Zen of swing--"You just feel it, " she says. "They...
Callow has all that to consider in his second volume: how the seductive boy became the self-destructive man; why Hollywood blackballed a director who loved film so recklessly and, in his first pass at the mechanical muse, conquered her. But Welles left a monument no one can chip away. As the documentary notes, "There is only one winner in the story of Citizen Kane, and that's the film...In its 55th year, the movie is still a marvel, a circus of camera wizardry enlivening the story of a failure: a powerful man who loses it all. The young...
Oneness had a moral value for Brancusi, as both the origin and the aim of consciousness. It is marvelously expressed in sculptures like Sleeping Muse [III], 1917-18: the ovoid head inflected only by the ghost of a mouth, the delicate V of a nose and the incisions of hair, one of which follows an existing flaw in the veined marble. Part of the magic of his work is its sensitivity to material. Substance and metaphor fuse...
Keeve's lens roves over a host of intriguing characters, from Mizrahi's mothah, no mean fashion critic--especially to her son--to customer Eartha Kitt, whose gleeful shimmying and frothy poodles prompt Mizrahi to muse, "It's almost impossible to have any style at all without the right dogs...