Word: svengalis
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...race movie "Broken Strings," well directed by western-movie specialist Bernard B. Ray, Muse is a violin virtuoso who turns bitter when he loses use of his left hand and is reduced to teaching the instrument he can no longer play. Muse's Arthur Williams is part Svengali, part Phantom of the Opera, and a big part any adult frustrated by the seeming lack of dedication the young bring to their studies. It's the rare film, for black or white audiences, in which good people can seem heartless or insubordinate for the best reasons, and where classical music gets...
...Baker as his only legitimate American dharma heir was a disaster, and Suzuki himself even seemed to be aware of this fact beforehand. Why, then, did he insist on doing so? Keeping the enormous enterprise of Zen Center going, Suzuki knew, would require the abilities of a fund-raising Svengali, and he may have overlooked flaws in Baker of which he was perfectly well aware because Baker was so good at roping in the support of the rich, the famous and the powerful. Then again, Downing's interviewees explain, Suzuki may have meant to give dharma transmission to other members...
KARL ROVE W.'s Svengali implicated in idea to let Salvation Army ban gays. Back to Texas by fall...
...roles she has played. She wants to do more acting?real acting, not just flaunting her face in ads, or her neck-snapping body in thinly disguised erotic films. But she has been trapped by her success?and by her adviser. Manfred Wong, the Hong Kong Svengali who discovered her and remains her manager, has seemingly never seen a script too poor or a commercial too cheesy to reject. Except, that is, for a little film called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?something Shu Qi is still trying to live down...
Does Dick Morris speak any Hebrew? Clinton war-room veteran James Carville may have helped Ehud Barak get elected last year, but the Israeli prime minister's political survival now appears dependent on the sort of U-turns conjured up by the Clinton administration's former policy Svengali. As the death toll from the renewed intifada in the West Bank and Gaza reached 161 Monday - all but 12 of them Arab - the prime minister elected on promises of completing the peace process started by Yitzhak Rabin found himself fighting for his political life Monday, having failed to form an emergency...