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...fearful about the security of the newly independent Central and East European nations in the critical struggle for their democratic transformation if they are left in the "wilderness" outside NATO. They are ripe for possible intimidation and exploitation. Realistically, it is too early to bet on Russia's success in creating democratic institutions that will guarantee a break with the Soviet past. There is still too much of a mentality that craves a controlling God-like figure, as opposed to individual freedom and free enterprise, the basis of a democracy. nato is much more than a military alliance that reacts...
What a nice change of pace it is to hear two trumpets playing together in a small-group context. They share lovers' murmurs here, a joke there, sometimes joining for a ripe, plangent phrase. The nonagenarian demonstrates lungs, the whippersnapper sly wit (and an occasional bent for theatrics); both have a sweetly teasing way with a melody. Cheatham's talk-singing on 10 of the 14 tunes may be an acquired taste. On the continuum of singing horn players, he's probably closer to Dizzy Gillespie than to Armstrong, but listeners with generous ears will be charmed...
...called ?hot.? What we have here, believe it or not, is 62 minutes of great make-out music. What a nice change of pace it is to hear two trumpets playing together in a small-group context. They share lovers? murmurs here, a joke there, sometimes joining for a ripe, plangent phrase. The nonagenarian demonstrates lungs, the whippersnapper sly wit (and an occasional bent for theatrics); both have a sweetly teasing way with a melody. Cheatham?s talk-singing on 10 of the 14 tunes may be an acquired taste. On the continuum of singing horn players, he?s probably...
...meticulous construction and details of the book are matched by a measured lyricism as ripe and succulent as a fresh papaya. A dead woman's throat is "an estuary of color and disorder"; a father and daughter camp under "the quickening wounds of a million stars." A refrigerator coughs "like a four-pack-a-day smoker," and nothing seems impossible, not even a man killed by a hurricane-blown avocado. Drawing on the inheritance of an almost folkloric wisdom, Garcia is unafraid of suggesting that passion is "a frail interlude between the prosperities of loss...
Clinton's elusiveness, as both a politician and a man, would also seem to make his presidency ripe for interpretation by popular culture. So take your pick: Is the President an irresponsible party boy, as in Republican Clint Eastwood's Absolute Power, or a slow-to-anger knight in shining armor, as in Democrat Rob Reiner's The American President? Or maybe he's just a compassionate fellow who lives to minister to fatally ill kids, as in A Child's Wish, a recent TV movie on cbs. That President was played in a cameo by Bill Clinton, which made...