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...Rostropovich, Ma played the first movement of Antonin Dvorak's cello concerto. The composition is a staple in the relatively scant cello repertoire, and as such is probably as familiar to Rostropovich as the Lord's Prayer is to the Pope. Rostropovich, naturally, has thought a great deal about the work, and his suggestions to Ma about performing it, reflected the more than 20 years he has been performing the concerto...
Eagles owner Leonard Tose and general manager Jim Murray approached Restic last Monday, but he remained wary of the scant job security afforded by the top slot on the cellar-dwelling Eagles. Restic was quoted by Associated Press as saying: "If they give me what I asked for, then I've got a decision to make. If they don't then it's all over. I'm staying at Harvard...
...Arizona Congressman Morris Udall, Iowa was a near disaster. Unable to set himself apart from his rivals, he remained an unfocused candidate-and largely unknown. Mo won a scant 5.9% of the vote. For Shriver, Iowa was even more of a disaster. With the Catholic vote lost to Carter, he garnered 3.3% of the vote. Though he was not involved in the Iowa caucuses, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford withdrew from the presidential race last week, citing trouble raising funds and the "ordeal of running a campaign...
...Scant Attention. Bugs receives at least part of his due in this compilation of ten cartoons, cut together with some historical material about how they were made. The cartoons are representative, but they show Bugs only at his intermittent best. Many of his finest efforts are missing because rights were not available. Vintage home movies of the animation unit are fun, but Filmmaker Jackson relies too much on the reminiscences of Cartoon Director Bob Clampett to fill in the facts. Clampett pays scant attention to his contemporaries-Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones-and endeavors to portray himself as Looney...
...other universities. Della Terza told the MCAD Napoli "makes such mistakes in speaking and writing Italian that we could not in good conscience allow her to teach courses more sophisticated than Elementary Italian and perhaps Intermediate Italian." Moreover, he said, Napoli's knowledge of contemporary Italian culture was too scant for her to teach more advanced literature courses and to be able to substitute for other members of the department. In 1972, when she was applying for an instructor's job, she agreed with Della Terza, writing him, "Your criticisms of my Italian are only too valid...