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...ultimate success of any new opera, though, depends on the composer. Glass's stubborn refusal to "develop" his uncompromising idiom has exasperated some, who point to the more flexible, eclectic style of John Adams (Nixon in China) as a way out of the minimalist box. Glass's chug-chug style remains instantly recognizable, but his music has colored and deepened over the years. The Voyage lowers, thunders and rages -- it begins with the same six-note figure that opens Wagner's Die Walkure -- vividly reflecting Hawking's visions of terror and wonder and Columbus' dark and stormy night...
Those relegated to the Post's classified section rather than its front page may find it tougher going. Former Nixon appointee Ron Walker, managing director of the executive-search firm Korn/Ferry in Washington, says his office is getting "tons of calls. People want to be prepared," he says. "No one wants to be the last one out of the chute." Think tanks are hanging out NO VACANCY signs. "We just laid off five people," says Christopher DeMuth, president of the American Enterprise Institute. Although Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp is said to be guaranteed a job with...
After all, we twice elected Richard Nixon, a man who always looked like he had just ingested an entire bottle of laxatives. And Jimmy Carter wasn't exactly Mr. Charisma, even if he did confess to Playboy that he had committed adultery in his heart...
...talk about testing character and leadership, debates have been about as reliable a predictive tool as newspaper horoscopes. In 1960 neither Kennedy nor Nixon hinted at the looming U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In four debates, they fielded only two questions on civil rights. In 1980 Ronald Reagan got off scot-free when he confidently forecast that his economic elixir of tax cuts and defense hikes would miraculously produce "a balanced budget by 1983, if not earlier." At least in 1988 Ann Compton of ABC deserved credit for pressing George Bush: "Isn't the phrase 'no new taxes' misleading the voters...
After the 1960 debates, Douglass Cater of the Reporter magazine -- one of the panelists -- noted how quickly Kennedy and Nixon "mastered its special form of gamesmanship" this new political medium required. "No matter how narrow or broad the question," Cater wrote, "each of them extracted his last second of allotted image projection in making his response." If anything, the candidates have grown more adroit over the years. That is why these political quiz shows have come to resemble that other icon of the TV age -- the Super Bowl: overhyped, overcoached and ultimately underwhelming...