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...Bush has not even decided when he will decide. But all indications are that the first Rubicon has been seven-eighths crossed. The President asserted he is "somewhat skeptical" that air power alone can drive Saddam's forces out of Kuwait, and others were far more categorical. Lieut. General Sir Peter de la Billiere, British commander in Saudi Arabia, called a ground campaign "inevitable." No matter how devastating the air war has been, said Sir Peter, it is "minor, compared to what they've got coming...
...charge. Yet she treats them all -- bosses, bureaucrats, the occasional serial killer -- with an elaborate respect whose irony shows only at the cutting edges. When an asylum director sneers that Starling has wasted his time, she replies, "Yessir, but then I would've missed the pleasure of your company, sir." That second sir is the smooth stiletto...
...Hollywood need is to start at Reel 1 with a happy beginning. Meryl Streep can star. Carrie Fisher will write the script. And Jodie Foster, a child of the movies who has always known the direction she and her films should take, will shout, "Action!" And never mind the sir...
...greatest works admirably demonic (e.g. Don - Giovanni), most smiled on his sonatas as works of tinkly charm appropriate for young ladies to perform in the parlor. That view of Mozart as a divinely inspired but childlike innocent endured well into this century. Only a few enthusiasts such as Sir Thomas Beecham and Artur Schnabel kept emphasizing the depth and drama in his later symphonies and piano works ("Too easy for students and too difficult for artists," said Schnabel). Serious scholarship helped; so did the revival of period instruments. The 1948 arrival of the LP record vastly broadened the availability...
Almost equally exhaustive is the Mozart year's biggest recording project: the collected works on 180 Philips CDs in 45 volumes, some 200 hours of music. Released at a rate of 12 to 15 CDs a month, the set already includes all the symphonies, played by Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in- the-Fields, and the piano concertos, performed mainly by Alfred Brendel. This month's releases include the violin concertos and wind concertos...