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This unlikely duo embark on a series of picaresque adventures that often involve the colonel's mistress Marianne, appealingly played by Florence Lacey. The score is as romantic as candlelight and wine, and the dances are robust in folk flavor. One waltz-like number between Jacobowsky and the colonel (You I Like) is a touching ode to friendship...
Despite his ravaged appearance, the once robust Bhutto, 50, had lost little of his self-assurance. He told the Supreme Court that his jailers had for a time kept him in a cell next door to 15 screaming "lunatics." Declared Bhutto: "Because I am a leader, I was able to survive this treatment. A lesser man would have dissipated [sic] long ago." Denying the murder charge, he added: "I am not a criminal. I am an important national leader. Is this the way you treat national leaders...
...Beethoven's Eighth Symphony which ended the program. The work offers a rare chance to hear the mature Beethoven in a congenial mood, and has a great deal of intrinsic charm; the composer showed good taste in preferring it to the more popular Seventh. But despite the clean and robust tone of the strings and some fine lyrical playing from the woodwinds, problems of balance so marred the performance that it can neither be called satisfying, nor even very charming. The overassertive brass, despite their lack of numbers, covered the woodwinds during much of the first movement; in the Finale...
...brain and discovered, in their words, "a fairly common, apparently congenital anomaly between the cerebrum and cerebellum"-a condition that might make him particularly susceptible to injury from blows to the head. Hamburg's amateur boxing association believed it had no other choice; it banned the apparently robust KÖpcke from ever boxing again, thus making him a fighter kayoed...
Riccardo says he recruited Iacocca because Chrysler "needed additional firepower." While Ford and General Motors are both enjoying robust sales and profits, Chrysler is in the midst of its worst year since 1975, when it lost $260 million. The company lost $158.5 million in the third quarter alone, and its full-year deficit could reach $250 million. On the plus side, Chrysler in August sold its European automotive assets to France's Peugeot-Citroën in a deal that included $230 million in cash. Riccardo has announced that Peugeot-Citroën coughed up the $230 million this...