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...that Mutter and Mullova are in the ascendancy. Mutter's gifts include a consummate control of her instrument, gleaming intonation, ripe sound and an assured, nerveless stage demeanor. They seem to have come naturally. At age nine, Mutter coolly performed a solo Bach piece for Violinist Henryk Szeryng. The Polish-born master, dressed in shirt-sleeves, first listened dispassionately. When she had finished, he walked to his closet, donned a coat and tie and announced, "Now you can say hello to Uncle Henryk." Something similar happened when, at 13, she auditioned for Conductor Herbert von Karajan. After hearing her play...
Gore is a combination of St. Alban's polish and down-home charm, Harvard intellectualism and backwoods shrewdness. He is almost as at home wearing pointy cowboy boots as clunky wing tips, drinking Corona beer in a rowdy bar as sipping Chablis in a Georgetown salon. But not quite. Now, in an effort to reposition himself, Gore the cerebral technocrat is coming on like a fiery champion of "working men and women." His problem is making the transformation credible. On the stump, he attempts to heighten emotions simply by raising the volume of his voice. Though he has fought...
Though normally regarded as anti-Communist, the Polish Pope in this instance was equally critical of capitalism and Marxism. Each, said the Pontiff, "harbors in its own way a tendency toward imperialism" and employs "structures of sin" in seeking wealth and influence in the world's poor nations. What they desperately need, said he, is "impartial aid from all the richer and more developed countries...
...area of foreign affairs and economics, the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and the 700 Club program shows little expertise. At a debate Sunday night he claimed that the Soviets had placed 25 nuclear missiles in Cuba and in previous statements he has promised to send aid to Polish rebels and to make future wars short because "we could have won Vietnam in a week or two." To solve the budget deficit, Robertson favors a "year of jubilee" in which all debts would be forgiven and has proposed selling the U.S. Post Office to raise revenue...
...performers' share of the fee may be, it is often enough to buy a Western automobile and finance a princely standard of living when they return home. But most who venture west seek fame as well as fortune. "In Poland I would pass my whole career almost unknown," says Polish Tenor Dariusz Walendowski, 32, an operetta singer who pays the Polish government's Pagart agency 15% of his average $500-a-performance fee at theaters throughout Austria. "I'm just beginning in Austria, but if I have talent, I can see it appreciated now, not after I'm dead...