Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week Switched-On Bach, one of the alltime classical bestsellers ($2,000,000 in sales), was finally dethroned after two years and 49 weeks in the No. 1 spot on Billboard's classical chart. SOB was originally brought to you by the same folks-Walter Carlos and Rachel Elkind-who set Beethoven and Purcell to the Moog synthesizer, or vice versa, in the film A Clockwork Orange. Switching Switched off into second place, the new champ: Mass by Leonard Bernstein (TIME. Sept. 20), which has sold 129,000 copies in less than two months...
...Moshe and Ruth Dayan also have three children and five grandchildren, but otherwise their marriage has been far from blessed. Now it has ended with a rabbinical divorce. "All Israelis are friends, so Moshe and I will remain friends," said Ruth. Some newspapers speculated that another friend, handsome Divorcee Rachel Korem, might soon be the new Mrs. Dayan...
Newman is also the director of Sometimes a Great Notion. Despite its shortcomings it is both more ambitious and more accomplished than his previous Rachel, Rachel. He seems more certain of himself here, not so recklessly inclined to expand a small moment into a crashing epiphany...
...chronology and scope, Miss Pullar's bibliography runs from Juvenal's Satires to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Tracing the vagaries of English appetite from the Roman occupation to the present, she has written a history of taste in the fullest sense of the word...
Alive and Well. For most coronary patients such hazard is acceptable. "Risks are statistics," explains a doctor in Rachel Mackenzie's newly published Risk (Viking; $3.95), an account of her experience with heart surgery. "So far as you're concerned, they're 100% or they're zero." The doctor is right, and for those who survive heart surgery, the prognosis is promising. Of Johnson's revascularization patients, 77% have survived at least two years after their operations; some of Effler's earliest patients have lived three years with their new plumbing. Most bypass patients...