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Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi (Antilles). The minimalist sound track from the movie stands on its own as a symphonic suite of rare power and passion...
...Players, and he waved back. The park's most mentioned artist-in-residence was William Sydney Porter, known as O. Henry, who lived on Irving Place and used to drink at Healy's Cafe, now Pete's Tavern, and still on 18th Street. One of the rare continuing neighborhood disputes concerns O. Henry. The people at Pete's claim that he wrote The Gift of the Magi in a booth there. A plaque at Sal Anthony's, a restaurant on the site of O. Henry's home, half a block from Pete...
That widely reported case no doubt chilled the courage of potential witnesses all over the country. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau notes that Edmonds' was one of those rare New York cases in which a witness was offered protection, only hours before his death. He turned it down because he had a $150-a-day heroin habit. Says the D.A.: "Junkies do not want to be kept away from their drugs...
...great chain of being. It could have been bathetic. It could have been pretentious. It could have been desperate. But like much else in an entrancing entertainment show that only looks small and simple, it succeeds in making you feel good without making you feel stupid. That is a rare quality in an up number. It is an even rarer quality in the musical theater of the moment. -By Richard Schickel
There are two works of art in A Medieval Feast, written and illustrated by Aliki (Crowell; $9.95): the regal meal, and the author's rendering of it. Preparations at the manor house, the pursuit of pheasants by falcons, and boars by aristocrats, the serving of the rare Cockentrice (a capon and suckling pig cut in half, stuffed and sewn each to the other's half), and finally the ravenous consumption of the endless courses are researched and represented with the serene detail of an illuminated manuscript...