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...recent departure from the New York Times spun off a torrent of debate, including Marjorie Williams' less than flattering article in Vanity Fair several weeks before Quindlen's announcement. Is Anna Quindlen selling out by rejecting the gleaming apple of a possible executive editorship, or is she just exercising her own choices as a woman by opting to write novels at home, allowing her to spend more time with her three children...
...took quite some time to take shape. It began as a script by Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), then got spun and spindled: Tarantino is credited with the story, Stone and his collaborators David Veloz and Richard Rutowski with the screenplay. Meanwhile, NBK was acquiring a bizarre new resonance. "When I started," says Stone, "this was a surreal piece. Now, thanks to Bobbitt and Menendez and Tonya Harding, it's become satire. By the time I'd finished, fact had caught up to fiction. O.J. is the final blowout...
...fact, the tangled web was spun by the Administration itself. What emerged from more than 100 hours of complex testimony about the Whitewater scandal was evidence of a persistent pattern of deception among White House staff members. By last week it was clear that both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill felt they had been misled by the Clinton White House. Roger Altman demanded that lawmakers believe his own recollections of meetings, rather than those of seven other officials who contradicted him under oath. Joshua Steiner, the 28- year-old Treasury chief of staff, insisted that his diary...
Virgin Classics has recently spun off an ancillary series called Veritas, which offers an opportunity "to hear early music performed in an authentic style" while striving "to be faithful to the past through a combination of academic research technical excellence and interpretive insight...
...showcase work, Paganini swiped the theme of his "Moses" Variations from a Rossini opera, and spun a half-dozen or so flavors, all to be played on a single string. Shaham's technique is evidently as facile with one string as it is with four, resulting in remarkably few signs of strain throughout the entire piece. He eschews the traditional scordatura (tuning the G string up to a B-flat, in this case), and refreshingly emphasizes a darker tonality than usually encountered with this piece...