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...Unification Church, founded in 1954 by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, has frequently been attacked for its recruiting tactics. Critics say the members, commonly known as "moonies," target vulnerable individuals using brainwashing and kidnapping techniques...
Ordinarily, the immediate postmortem period is the time when a composer's music and his reputation go underground with him. Not Messiaen's. Consider, for example, a new Deutsche Grammophon release of the sprawling Turangalila- Symphonie, in a stunning performance by conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Bastille Opera Orchestra. Written in 1948, this vast, hermetic work is a powerful introduction to Messiaen's intricate, private world of symbol and allusion, both sacred and profane...
...president of his own Morristown, N.J., consulting firm, Polyconomics, Wanniski has tried to draw attention to his quirky brainchild by bashing a slew of famous journalists of both the left and right while fawning over the Washington Times, the right-leaning newspaper owned by members of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. His attacks do not appear to have inflicted serious damage on the careers of either Lewis H. Lapham, liberal editor of Harper's, or William F. Buckley Jr., conservative editor of National Review. But then, Wanniski has been putting out the guide for only six years...
...famously reclusive writer a la Salinger, Pynchon or B. Traven who lives in a rural hideaway somewhere within a 200-mile radius of New York City. Bill's household also includes Scott, his devoted fan, secretary, factotum and nanny; and ; Karen, a refugee from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church who once took part in an arranged group marriage of 6,500 couples...
...Hector Berlioz's heroic opera Les Troyens (The Trojans), which has just opened the new Opera de la Bastille in Paris, is anything near the composer's gigantic vision. But for the moment that does not matter. What does matter is what the production represented: a triumph for Myung-Whun Chung, the Opera's untested 37-year-old Korean-American music director; a triumph for Pierre Berge, the man who hired Chung; a triumph for Carlos Ott, the unknown Canadian architect; a triumph for French President Francois Mitterrand; and, most important of all, a triumph for opera...