Word: straussed
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Music of Wagner, Brahms, Grieg, R. Strauss and Sibelius...
...music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn; a fourth, of 20th century works, will be released in September.) The assortment of music on this three-record set, released last month, is very odd for a Romantic piano music collection: three sonatinas by Jean Sibelius, an obscure sonata by Richard Strauss, two transcriptions by Gould of highlights from Wagner operas, and more conventional repertoire by Brahms and Grieg...
Exporters of pop pander to foreign stereotypes of Americans. "The Japanese have very firm ideas about what they think we should be," says Jim Chriss, marketing vice-president of Levi Strauss International. Real Americans, in other words, are cowboys and sexpots and raucous young hunks--Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift. It seems that Europeans and Japanese are especially fond of the American icons that provided their first pop jolt 20 or 30 or 40 years ago--pop that now has patina. The French intelligentsia still swoons for American movies of the '40s and '50s. Levi's is using images...
...store with the partitioned quiet. But only briefly. Time to fight back. Then the desire for separation turns to an eagerness, even a combativeness. I become almost comfortable with the idea I am under siege." Under siege, Cuomo can be hard. Last year when Democratic Leader Robert Strauss commented that if Cuomo became a presidential candidate, he needed to be less a voice of the past, the Governor fired off a bristling letter. Strauss tried to telephone for days, but Cuomo spurned the calls. After a disagreement with another national official, Cuomo demanded and got a public retraction, dictated verbatim...
Texas harbors surprises: Germans in the hill country, for example, still speaking in the accents that their forebears brought over in the 1840s. Says Robert Strauss, the Texan who is former chairman of the Democratic National Committee: "Texas is a montage of America. From the financial center of Dallas to the high-tech areas of Austin to the agricultural communities. It represents the sea and the mountains and the valleys, great wealth and pockets of poverty...