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...London Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti conductor, London; 4 LPs). "Summer lightning made audible" was Shaw's metaphor for this miraculous score, and it serves well to describe Solti's performance-swift, dramatic, deft. The tragic hints in the work are systematically underplayed; the elegant comic surface remains unbroken. Colin Davis' 1974 recording, with its darker moods and more muscular texture, still provides a compelling alternative reading. But the splendid cast and Solti's conducting make this set at least the equal of any now available...
...indulgence, covered a light gray vest and a simple, collarless white shirt. Khomeini showed neither comprehension of nor interest in the brief introduction. There was no handshaking, merely a nod. He sat down, crosslegged, to take the first question?which, as usual, he ignored. Instead, he launched into an unbroken 20-minute monologue. He spoke in a soft voice, difficult to hear even from a foot or two away, and stared steadfastly at the floor all the while. Occasionally, his sensitive hands trembled. The interview was terminated when Khomeini abruptly rose. As the translator repeated a final question, the Ayatullah...
Bruce served notice of his arrival this year with an unbroken string of victories that has carried the Buckeyes to top-five ranking in both the A.P. and U.P.I, football polls. In the process, he has healed the ugly divisions on and off campus that followed Woody Hayes' ouster as head coach last January after Hayes slugged a Clemson player during the closing minutes of the Gator Bowl. If Ohio State can get by Iowa and Archrival Michigan in its final two games, Bruce could finish his first year in Hayes' shoes with a Big Ten title...
...1980s. King supports public housing cooperatives, opposes vacancy decontrol and has a realistic and humane grasp of the city's crime and health problems. King is not garden variety Boston mayoral candidate; he is not white, he is not Irish and he does not descend from an unbroken line of Boston pols. If Boston voters are looking for a creative, forward-looking mayor, King is a logical choice...
Will The Circle Be Unbroken...