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...Life" and "Zanzibar" also set shallow words to fine music. The former mixes bold, upbeat instrumentals with creative back-up vocals from Chicago's Peter Cetera and Donnie Decus. The latter experiments with some faint Latin rhythm and a few typical Steely Dan cliches, mixing in a fine jazz trumpet solo by Freddie Hubbard. It is the album's best mood piece, and possibly the most creative work on 52nd Street...
...long, too loud here and there, and a touch gimmicky: the stage bulges with strange percussive instruments used for special effects. The large orchestra, which includes brasses fit for Mahler or Richard Strauss, sometimes sounds like an elephant loose at a Victorian tea party. The trombones, trumpets and horns often drown out Hendricks, even though her voice is amplified. Still, Del Tredici has a winning ear. The eerie whoosh of a theremin, a primitive electronic instrument, signals Alice's alarming growth. Tempos slow down and shoot forward, keys slip in and out of place with perfect illogic. An orchestral...
...enjoy a period of limited self-rule. Begin, however, insisted that he had pledged to maintain the moratorium on the settlements for only three months. In tacit agreement that it was far better to get on with the peace process, neither Washington nor Jerusalem last week tried to trumpet the differences in viewpoint...
...precious little sustenance from the earth they scorched in a vain attempt to hold off the advancing barbarians. This is the year the swell for labor law reform hit a crosswind; the year natural gas deregulation came in a gusher. This is the year of The Great Temptation to trumpet a Right-Wing Trend. Well, get thee behind me, Satan. Because this is a year like most years in American politics...
Trying to cope with the worst dollar disaster yet, the Carter Administration last week seemed in peril of following what has become a distressingly familiar pattern: a portentous roll of publicity drums that builds up to a toot on an uncertain trumpet. Early in the week the dollar came under a concentrated cannonade from some financial Guns of August, and its steady, summer-long retreat turned into a disorderly rout. It fell 4½% against the Swiss franc in a single day, while the price of gold, the ultimate refuge for investors worried lest their dollars become worth much less...