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...create a mood in the listener, not to have him follow a complicated puzzle. Minimal music (the term is borrowed from the less-is-more visual-arts movement of the '60s, led by such artists as Sculptors Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd) invites the audience to revel in hypnotic sounds and take delight when one prolonged, incessantly repeated passage suddenly gives way to another. It is a kind of musical kaleidoscope whose each new turn can reveal sudden, unexpected beauties...
MEET ARTHUR PARKER. He's a traveling sheet-music salesman with a lot of dreams. He dreams of his own music store and an escape from the drudgery of everyday life. He dreams of a beautiful woman who will revel with him in the pleasures of the flesh. Sometimes he says things like, "Listen, there's got to be something on the other side of the rainbow." At other times, he wails, "There must be a place somewhere in the world where the songs are real." But it's 1934, and only stars like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have...
...legislators revel in the luxury. Last June, Senator Ollie Speraw proposed a bill that would have limited the increase in the legislators' own budget to 7%. He was shouted down. Says one of his few allies, Assemblyman William Filante: "Waste is the main problem in the state's budget crunch. The important thing is the attitude of the legislators: arrogance...
Like Children's Author Beatrix Potter, Artist and Illustrator Sara Midda celebrates the English garden in delicate watercolors. In and Out of the Garden (Workman; 128 pages; $14.95) will give snowbound nature lovers and backyard farmers cause to revel in vividly rendered pears, potatoes and peas. Tendrils of painstakingly crafted calligraphy-herbal aphorisms from Solomon to Poet John Clare-curl through tiny landscapes. There are also illustrated guides to flowers, fragrances and remedies offered by the bewhiskered farmers and thick-waisted matrons who tend these jewel-like plots. As for the predatory animals, like a good gardener, Midda...
...Express Owner Jimmy Goldsmith, a dual French and British citizen, who is a devout conservative and staunch admirer of Giscard. The eventual election results did not help either. Last week Goldsmith sacked L'Express Managing Editor Olivier Todd, and, in turn, Editor in Chief Jean-François Revel resigned in protest...