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...Mozart's symphonies without subtitles, his 29th is the second most widely performed, after the 40th. Rather than suffering from overexposure, the symphony is still fresh on a sixth or seventh listen. Its attractively slight orchestration calls for strong individual performances of the sort that the Brandenburg Ensemble was especially prepared to offer. After three second-billings in a row, the group gave an authoritative reading of each of the four movements...
With Star Wars, even purists feel only slight resentment at the alterations, because the main addition is a scene intended for the original but pulled because of technological and budgetary constraints. In The Empire Strikes Back the necessity for or even the intention behind the changes is not as clear. Since it would be wrong to regard the trilogy as an artistic masterpiece as opposed to a special effects film, we can't call it a piece of film history that ought not be retouched. But the originals are good enough and loved enough that we would trust George Lucas...
...Eiffel Tower from wooden toothpicks in his New Jersey basement who can be deemed altogether immune to discovery by dealers. There's no mystery about why this should be so, since a) the art market has run out of new "movements," while b) there has been a slight backlash against the star system of the art world and the excesses of its market, causing a new ripple of pseudo-penitential interest in the anonymous, the amateurish, the "naive" or "incorrupt" artist. Having run out of external primitives, America must find internal ones, and there are plenty to go around...
...There were two major problems of concern. When there was a slight problem, we would have to take down our entire system [and] we were susceptible to mail spikes," said Franklin M. Steen, director of FAS Computer Services. Such problems occur when a high volume of mail results in a clogged server, said...
...record, as vocalists, the girls are harder to tell apart. Only Mel B., whose voice has a bit of grit, stands out; the rest have bright, slight voices, more light than heat, more Wilson Phillips than En Vogue. It's also disconcerting that the Girls' accents disappear when they sing, only to reappear during spoken-word segments, like Eliza Doolittle forgetting her manners. It's as if they are so closely copying American pop music that their own distinctive qualities are erased. In fact, most of the songs on Spice sound like '90s hip-hop updates of funk songs from...