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...years the standard reference work on Joplin's life was They All Played Ragtime by Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janis, a 1950 study based largely on interviews with surviving original ragtimers. But oral history is necessarily flawed, since recollection fails with the passage of years, and a more scholarly, rigorous treatment was called for. Now comes King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era by ragtime scholar Edward A. Berlin (Oxford; 334 pages; $25); it immediately supplants the earlier book as the most accurate and informative Joplin biography...
...Harvard's men's soccer team did just get back from an 11-day voyage to Germany, and you know what? Hanging out with Thomas Dooley and Claudio Reyna, and having your picture taken with Andy Brehme and Rudi Voeller is, as Alexi Lalas might say, pretty bitchin,' dudc...
...Lost Soldier" is not particularly profound, but it remains a marvelous film. Its elegiac and celebratory quality is reminiscent at times of the Taviani Brothers' "The Night of the Shooting Stars." Kerbosch has carefully adapted Rudi van Dantzig's autobiographical novel into a sensitive, lyrical film, resonant with truth and the burnished memory of a first love...
...often than not, with revulsion. In France the Communist Party did its best to isolate the young enragees. In China senior party hacks shuddered before a Cultural Revolution whose slogan was "Attack the Party headquarters!" In communist East Germany the Stasi agreed with its Western counterparts that student leader Rudi Dutschke was a "dangerous subversive...
...Dorothy Affa Ames, Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam (Assistant Editors); Cristina T. Scalet, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Researchers) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...