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...Minor, Andante Spianato and Grande Polo naise, Columbia; $5.98). Celebrating 25 years on the concert stage and still young at 44, Graffman gives a spirited performance infused with the authority of a master. Most revealing of all, perhaps, are the little pieces whose shift ing eminences of light and shade are as carefully traced and polished as the face of a fine jewel...
...increasingly attractive to Midwestern thieves are not the underworld's usual stock in trade. They are black walnut trees, which are disappearing at an alarming rate from the north-central forests of the U.S., where most of them grow. In many places where the best of the giant shade trees once stood, beautifying landscapes in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, there are now only ugly stumps...
...minute drive into town from the airport, the brand-new divided highway goes by acre after acre of makeshift shacks perched precariously on the windswept desert. But the new stress is on agriculture. Gaddafi the Bedouin, brought up to revere trees as a source of food and shade, has ordered a massive land-reclamation program to make 700,000 acres of desert arable. (Cost: $800 million.) His aim is to make Libya self-sufficient in food...
...falling, the satyr reaching down to seize her. It is the most basic of schemes, but the subtleties of expression it discloses are almost inexhaustible: how the satyr's muscular determination, for instance, is summed up in a single inflection of drawing, the grasping hands given a shade more density than the rest of his body; or how the falling curve of the nymph's back and arm, diving out of the frame, is also a rising arch that offers itself to the pursuer. One line becomes an epigram of flight and surrender...
Playwright Israel Horovitz (The Indian Wants the Bronx, Line, Acrobats) is prolific, ebullient, agile and tenacious. He is a stage animal who has not yet exercised his full territorial imperative. One of Horovitz's problems is that his characters are a shade too volatile and voluble-a playgoer cannot easily enter the heart of a babbling dervish. Another Horovitz problem: a sustained narrative line. He tends to interrupt one story in order to tell another. In Dr. Hero, he is somewhat luckier, since the chronicle is dictated by nature- birth, adolescence, love, marriage, a job, old age, death...