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WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THE GLAMOROUS young German violinist ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER? She used to be just another pretty face, riding to glory aboard great war- horses named Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Brahms. On her latest Deutsche Grammophon album, though, she harnesses two modern violin concertos and tames them both. In Alban Berg's ineffable 1935 two-movement concerto, a requiem for the daughter of Alma Mahler Gropius, Mutter evokes the music's intense, passionate suffering. In Wolfgang Rihm's gorgeous Time Chant, written for her last year, Mutter's splendid fiddle soars ethereally over the Chicago Symphony led by James...
Watching the president's economic address last week, I could muster a great deal more than a head shake. I was outraged: yelling at the television, covering my eyes, pulling at my hair. After the initial shock, all I could do was mutter, "How could he do this?" My roommate, a strong Clinton supporter during the campaign, even chimed in to say that he was glad he wasn't a senior in search...
...before we toast the imminent departure from power of one so despised, we should admit that his experience might be put to a less nefarious use. Harvard especially ought not overlook the man's talent. Sometimes I find myself repeating his angry mantra. "Clear the square," I mutter, not referring to Tiananmen. The particular quadrilateral to which I allude is that notorious pit of filth, both human and chemical, which we call Harvard Square...
...wife does not," he says. "She was killed by a shell 67 days ago." Stunned silence. I cannot see his face. We mutter, "Sorry." The driver hurtles...
Well, not every kind of woman. "It's the year of the feminist woman," antifeminist Phyllis Schlafly observes tartly. Or at least of the liberal Democratic woman, which is why George Bush was heard to mutter, during the second debate, "I hope a lot of them lose." Of the 11 women who ran for the Senate, 10 were Democrats, as were 70 of the 106 candidates for Congress...