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...many moderate Democrats who were disappointed when Georgia's Senator Sam Nunn declined to become an active contender. Bob Strauss, the former national chairman and a man well suited to wield the kingmaker's mace, thinks Nunn could pull off a variation of the turn-to scenarios. He could announce later this year that his tasks as Armed Services Committee chairman prevent relentless campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire, but that he will launch a national candidacy in time for the Southern round of primaries on March 8. This could succeed, Strauss speculates, because the earliest contests might yield...
...exalted position is resented by many; to them, he is still the nail that sticks out. In the West, old questions about how deeply he understands music continue to dog him. His detractors write of his "blank interpretations," and indeed Ozawa has always been more effective in Strauss and Stravinsky showpieces than in Beethoven symphonies. Music that demands depth rather than flash taxes him. He has taken up opera in Europe, but his strengths and weaknesses remain the same: his Elektra in Paris was the work of a master colorist but lacked the manic intensity that others generate...
Christian Social Union party leader Franz Strauss, an ally of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, claimed that Germans should no longer hold themselves accountable for what he considers to be just an instant in the long existence of Germany. Strauss put his case before the German people in the general elections three weeks...
...Hollywood's gritty, black-and-white melodramas of the period. Earlier this season, the same company presented a Mad Max version of Bizet's Carmen by David Pountney that replaced castanets and mantillas with feral children darting amid junked American automobiles. In Paris, Producer Seth Schneidman staged Strauss's Elektra as a dream-theory psychodrama, freely mixing images of Greek antiquity and 19th century Europe...
...work in tandem now that they control all of Capitol Hill. Twice last month the two met in Byrd's ornate office to outline what they would say. Each leader drafted his own speech on yellow legal pads, consulting colleagues and party stalwarts like Clark Clifford and Robert Strauss for suggestions...