Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...KRONOS QUARTET (Nonesuch). The San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet (Violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, Violist Hank Dutt and Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud) looks like a new-wave band and plays like an iconoclast's image-busting dream come to fiddling life. This disk offers the Balinese- influenced String Quartet No. 8 by the idiosyncratic Australian Peter Sculthorpe, the introspective Quartet No. 3 by conservative Finnish Composer Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass's somber, eight-minute Company, the rarely heard 1942 String Quartet by expatriate American Conlon Nancarrow and, as an encore, an arrangement of Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze...
...there seems little reason to be particularly satisfied about the prospects for a resurgence of the Democratic Party. The Democrats did not triumph because they were able to generate a set of issues or to provide an alternative agenda. Their eight-seat gain in the Senate came from a string of races that were decided on local issues. In almost every tightly contested state the local hero won. The outcome Tuesday certainly demonstrated that the voters' newfound attachment to the Grand Old Party may run only as deep as their attachment to Reagan's popularity--and without his name...
Does this mean we are about to witness a long string of Administration defeats in Congress? No. First, in terms of sheer bulk, there is not much that President Reagan wants from Congress except to protect the gains achieved largely in the first year, which is a much easier task to accomplish than policy initiation. He has the smallest domestic legislative agenda of any President in the post-war era, and whatever rhetoric he has committed to social issues like prayer in the schools and the prohibition of abortions, they have never been serious interests of the Administration. Second...
...Cambridge and Latin High School JV team is not a typical team. And Fanshen Cox, the squad's third-string wide receiver, is not a typical player...
...book (his fourth), called The Wonderful Private World of Liberace. He is about to open a new museum in Las Vegas, filled with costumes and pianos. He will soon franchise his Vegas restaurant, Tivoli Gardens. The Liberace Foundation, which endows promising young musicians, ! provides the star with a string of proteges (like Eric Hamelin, the 14-year- old piano whiz who performs a featured solo at the Music Hall). Not bad for a fellow who might once have been laughed off as a novelty act, a Tiny Tim at the Baldwin...