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...unobtrusive as the voice that sings them: a calico background saying nothing on its own. The guitar and the fiddle and the steel and the piano are the real talkers, but they speak the same language. Betts's guitar riffs play on tension-and-release--building a taut peak like any good sixties guitar (only more delicate), then instead of dropping it letting it shower down intact, shaking leaves off a tree. Everything soars and subsides, but in tiny arcing weblets rather than waves. This is the kind of guitar that can have a conversation with another instrument that...
...then. French wine prices have started to drop lately from their ridiculous highs as a result of buyer resistance and an oversupply after several bountiful harvests in a row. In Manhattan, for example, Chateau Lafite '59 is retailing for about $810 a case, down from a peak of $1,600 last year. But the best news for oenophiles is that the California wine industry has also become the victim of overexpansion-and recession-and consumers can look forward to lower prices for better than average wines...
Records have been Horowitz's principal and often his only link with his public for years. It is part of musical legend that in 1953, at the peak of his career, Horowitz retired from the concert scene for twelve years. He returned in triumph in 1965 at Carnegie Hall-that album did sell like a rock record-then once again quit the stage in 1969. Explaining his sabbaticals, Horowitz talks in terms of the need for emotional and artistic refueling. "To make a break does purify," he says. It also starts rumormongers talking, as Horowitz is well aware. "People...
...Money Player is scandalous. When he was not involved in grand or petty larceny, the self-styled "Bad Boy of Table Tennis" could fill his wallet and his mouth by legitimate means. At his peak, Reisman was the best hard-racket man in the world. Today, at 44, he can be beaten only by players using trick spins off the modern soft-sponge paddle. As the champ says, his kind of Ping Pong is entirely unlike the metronomic rec-room game familiar to most Americans. World-class players can propel the ball at speeds exceeding 100 m.p.h.; facing them across...
Fresh Antiques. Nightly TV foliage reports and toll-free telephone bulletins on "peak color" kept thousands of viewers up-to-date on the most colorful areas. Varying with temperature and elevation, maples displayed the most brilliant reds, and birches, beeches and oaks were at their brightest yellows and oranges in mid-October this year...