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...serves to illustrate the growing feeling among those who enjoy good rock that modern music is taking a fast dive into the garbage can. Not only is Beethoven rolling over; he may walk out of his grave and give Johnny Rotten and his compatriots a deserved punch in the nose...
...launch center. Exposed film is stored in six cannisters that are periodically ejected into the earth's atmosphere, descending by parachute toward a point in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii, where they are snatched from the air by a giant Y-shaped sky hook bolted to the nose of an Air Force cargo plane. If that fails, the cannisters float on or just under the surface of the Pacific, giving off radio and sonar signals, and are recovered by frogmen...
...working notes Tolstoy made her ugly, giving her a narrow, low forehead and a nose so big that it was almost deformed. But in looks at least, Anna Karenina has been lucky. The author himself fell in love with her, performing a graceful act of plastic surgery before he introduced her to the public, and over the years she has been portrayed by some of the loveliest women in the world. The great Garbo played her twice, and Vivien Leigh added her exquisite beauty to the part 13 years later. In this ten-part series from the BBC, premiering...
...Brien had suspended Washington--then with the Lakers--for 60 days on December 12 after Washington seriously injured the Houston Rockets' Rudy Tomjanovich in a December 9 game. Tomjanovich, who sustained a broken jaw, broken nose, fractured skull and a concussion in the incident, will miss at least the rest of the season...
What makes Horowitz the most exciting pianist in the world is not readily apparent from the look of him. Handsome? Hardly. His ears are too big, and his nose and chin much too long. The explanation came, as it always does, when he began to play. Leaning to his left and glancing toward the orchestra, he filled the hall with the simple, folkish melody that opens the concerto. That is one aspect of the Horowitz magic: rich, full tone even in moments of quiet. The rest of his sorcery was soon at work. The concerto's immense hurdles (lightning...