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Chopin performed on the piano by invisible hands, a horse-size dog with crocodile claws who feeds on marmalade, chairs that dance and saltcellars that scamper across the dining table. These are some of the fantastic images in The House of the Spirits, a first novel by Isabel Allende that has captivated readers in Latin America and Western Europe. Published in Spanish in 1982, it quickly became a best seller in Spain and many Latin American countries. Foreign-language versions that appeared last year have sold 400,000 copies in France and kept the book on the best-seller list...
...first wave of CDs featured orchestral blockbusters to show off the digital sound's wide dynamic range. The true test of recording technology, however, is the piano. Wow, flutter and tape hiss--ills that LPs are heir to --are all magnified in piano music, but they are drastically reduced, if not entirely eliminated, with CDs. And while flat-earthers may still decry what they hear as a clinical, metallic quality in digital CD recordings, such reservations will disappear as recording engineers adapt their techniques to the demands of the new medium. The best of the current CD piano releases...
...bout of delirium, a wonderfully judged piece of writing and acting. But then characters will lose their edges in the diffused light that seeps through the windows like radiation and gives the picture its instant-nostalgia look. Important lines of dialogue will be muffled by heavy footsteps or a piano's plaint. The crucial event of the Robedaux family occurs offscreen, in a narrative caesura between the film's two "acts." Watching this film is like going on a diet: it is probably healthy for you but not very nourishing...
...they grew, is to measure the change in public taste. McCarthy treated her Ivy maidens with defoliating wit; Segal bastes his Harvard yardbirds with sophomore-level prose: "The athletic season culminated with the many confrontations against Yale" and "While it was arguable that his interpretation of the complete Beethoven piano concerti was the best thing put on disk during the previous twelve months, it was indisputable that his publicity campaign was nonpareil...
...Petty decides to fortify his house and garden against such an invasion. But the bank promptly denies the pair a loan to purchase the necessary hardware, forcing Petty and Roger to launch a fundraising drive for their tanks and aircraft. They ask Prince Charles to appear at a teatime piano concert featuring one of their neighbors: he politely declines. They plan a "Bring-and-Buy" sale and ask Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to contribute an item. But they receive no help in those quarters, and their dund-raising drive falls short...