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SATIE: PIANO MUSIC VOL. 2 (Angel). Back in the days of Dada, Erik Satie wrote music scored for typewriters, airplane propellers, Morse tickers and lottery wheels. A Montmartre cabaret pianist, he was also a serious composer, puncturing the overblown romanticism of his time by turning out short wry works with such titles as Veritable Flabby Preludes (for a Dog), Disagreeable Sketches, and Chapters Turned Every Which Way. His 50-year-old tidbits still sound fresh and impudent, and are enjoying something of a vogue, due partly to their crisp presentation by Aldo Ciccolini...
...procedings on the grounds that publicity often prejudiced jurors' decisions. There is probably no perfect solution to a conflict as fundamental as the clash between freedom of the press and the right to fair trial. But the loud indignation of the great majority of media representatives seems unjust and overblown...
...Newbold Noyes was named editor, with a mandate to spend money on a topnotch staff. As a result, today's Star is again a newspaper worth reading, without sacrificing its urbane, low-keyed style. It manages to keep up with fast-breaking news and avoid the big, overblown headlines and shoddy sensationalism too often endemic to the afternoon. The Star is still the No. 2 paper in Washington, but in almost any other city it would rank...
Owing to the instant drop in barometric pressure, windows popped like overblown balloons. Crushed marble roofs provided Beulah with ready ammunition, and car windows throughout the town looked as if they had been sprayed by machine-gun fire. Freeway signs spun through the air like giant razor blades. As the storm passed on, the stench of oil from the ruptured tanks of sunken boats saturated...
...real Chapman was saluted by both sides during the war. The Nazis gave him the Iron Cross, the English granted him a full pardon. The movies, however, have not. In Triple Cross he has been doublecrossed with an overblown, underdeveloped film in which he is misplayed to disadvantage by Christopher Plummer. Surrounding Plummer is a competent cast, including Yul Brynner, Romy Schneider, Claudine Auger and Gert Frobe. But the whole enterprise seems to suggest that a spy does not necessarily improve the more times he crosses his employers. A triple agent can be three times duller than a single...