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...organize time and myth with music; we mark our lives by it. The death by assassination of John Lennon was an event that mingled music and myth and completed the relationship between the two. Music, as the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once said, "unites the contrary attributes of being both intelligible and untranslatable...
...hold their caucuses or primaries. All told, upwards of 30% of the Democratic Convention's delegates will be selected in the first three weeks of the process. "The third week of the primaries could be the bottom of the ninth inning," says the Democrats' past chairman Robert Strauss...
...tiniest of details, right down to the seating arrangements. For First Lady Nancy Reagan's dinner companions, she chose Henry Kissinger and Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams. Flanking former President Jimmy Carter were Graham herself and Margaret Truman Daniel. Rosalynn Carter dined with former Democratic Party Boss Robert Strauss and Richard Simmons, Washington Post Co. president. Some 2,400 other place cards included notables from television (Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite), business (Laurance Rockefeller, Lee Iacocca) and show business (Steven Spielberg, Diana Ross). Two hours of after-dinner ceremonies went from Graham's opening remarks to a closing "My Turn...
...Levi's Plaza, Levi Strauss & Co., corporate headquarters, San Francisco, Calif. Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., architects. Located on the fringe of the city, this office complex frames a pleasant garden and proves that corporate prestige does not depend on scraping...
...religious conviction necessary in a President? Certified historians and political scientists shy from such an embarrassing "value judgment." But the voters know they would not want a nonbeliever President, and their instinct is correct. It has been settled that a Catholic can be President. The droll Bob Strauss goes about asking whether the country is grownup enough for "a Texas...