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ELECTRONIC MUSIC is Yamashta's special love and talent but to my mind, the best moments of Go come when the music moves away from that medium and allows the opportunity for the strengths and style of Stevie Winwood to emerge. Winwood, who sings the part of Kurata and also plays guitar, piano and organ, puts in an impressive performance. His childlike yet soulful vocals are at their finest in "Ghost Machine," a fast-paced number based loosely on an Afro-Cuban rhythmic pattern with an aggressive rock beat, and on "Winner/Loser" which is in fact a Winwood composition...
...compared the literature they hold in high esteem with "the stuff you read in The New Yorker." He said the prevailing literary opinion is "tradition bound," concerned more with content and theme than style, technique, and innovative ways of telling the story...
Most Thais seem to have accepted with relief or resignation the demise of then-chaotic three-year-old "democratic experiment." Bangkok has quickly recovered its sybaritic style. The city's annual autumn festivals, its race track and fleshpots are jammed with tourists. Shares on the local stock market have risen 70% in the past three weeks. The bullet-and-grenade-pocked classrooms of Thammasat University, site of the bloody student rioting that preceded the coup (TIME, Oct. 18), have become something of a tourist attraction. But the total of 41 dead in the riots is not forgotten: cremations...
...cold autumn days grow shorter, Eastern Europe's largest nation (after the Soviet Union) is headed for its most difficult year since 1970. In the late afternoon, outside one of the new Western-style supermarkets in Warsaw, a line of people 20 yds. long extends out the door and into the chilly darkness. It is mostly women, bundled in heavy coats and woolen scarves, their cheeks turned crimson by the subfreezing temperature. It is the ubiquitous meat queue, the most common symbol of Poland's political and economic malaise...
Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's elegant estate in the nation's capital, houses a library of Byzantine studies--but it is also the site of 16 acres of a world-renowned formal garden. So when Harvard proposed last year to build an underground library addition, Pusey-style, beneath the estate's most graceful lawn, the University ran into determined opposition...