Word: normans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 7 & KINDERTOTENLIEDER (Philips). Seiji Ozawa leads the BostonSymphony Orchestra in a performance of extraordinary transparency, penetrated by the miraculous colors and moods of this vast, emotionally charged work. Jessye Norman's soprano is more enveloping than probing in the achingly beautiful Songs on the Deaths of Children...
...heck. It was over in 42 days. American forces suffered about 140 casualties. The returning U.S. troops were hailed as heroes. Publishers seized the upbeat, patriotic moment and flooded the market with quickie biographies of America's four-star master of flanking movements and teddy-bear tears, General "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf...
...seems to know for sure whether General Norman Schwarzkopf leans right or left, Republican or Democratic, so forcefully does he assert that he's an independent. Few have the least idea of what he thinks about monetary policy or school choice or quotas or global warming. Chances are, he favors a strong defense, though he has called war a "profane thing." What is most interesting is not that no one knows, but that hardly anyone cares...
When Schwarzkopf came home from the war zone last week, a crowd gathered before dawn to foil his attempt to sneak quietly back into the country at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. The band played a victory march and the national anthem, and the fans wearing STORMIN' NORMAN FOR PRESIDENT T shirts waved flags and yellow balloons as sea gulls wheeled overhead. "I can't describe to you the emotion that's in all our hearts," he said, with his first words on American soil in 239 days. "It's a great day to be a soldier...
...Brenda, son Christian, 13, daughters Jessica, 19, and Cynthia, 20, and a black Lab named Bear). He could catch up with Jeopardy and Cheers. Come Sunday, he could go to a real church and sit in a pew without sand in his boots. And while he savored his privacy, Norman Schwarzkopf could lean back and let the rest of America ponder his future...