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MOZART: THE PIANO QUARTETS (Columbia). "Everyone was bored and yawning," wrote a Viennese society reporter in 1788, describing the winter-long rash of amateur performances of Mozart's new piano quartets by "this and that princess." Now the two quartets are listed among Mozart's finest works and are given pristine performances by Polish Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski and the violinist, violist and cellist of the Budapest String Quartet...
...example, Moyers cited the rash of announcements he gave out just before Johnson's last trip to Texas. Instead of welcoming all the news, the press grumbled that it should have been ladled out over a period of two or three days. "If we had done that," continued Moyers, "that would have been managing the news. Newsmen complain if they get too little and if they get too much. As Oscar Wilde put it, 'In the old days we had the rack. Today we have the press...
...traditional silence at home football games, broken for a time by a rash of three-foot-long red plastic horns, has been restored by law and now it'll be so quiet that you can hear one of John McCluskey's passes drop...
...method is not recommended for routine, continuous use because some babies develop a rash from 502A. But it can be instituted whenever a virulent strain of "hospital staph" is detected in a nursery, and in at least six hospitals it has halted such invasions...
...caught dolphins and birds and ate them raw, endured three rainless weeks by drinking juices he pressed from fish, dew scraped up from the deck, and a daily pint of sea water. In the course of his 65-day voyage, Bombard lost 55 Ibs., suffered from diarrhea, a rash that covered his body, and pockets of pus under his fingernails. But he survived...