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Then Karpov did the unexpected: he advanced a pawn, unbalancing the position and not a few grand masters. Instantly all the heretofore examined lines, entire symphonies of hypothetical variation, vanished into the ether. "Unheard melodies," murmured the yellow-tied patzer sitting near me. His tone was wry and regretful...
...personal level, Bonfante, McDowell, Reingold and Bentley were struck by the informality of American politicians. In California pols and reporters regularly call one another by their first names, a practice almost unheard of in Europe or Japan. In fact, the secretary of one Los Angeles politician asked our man over the telephone, "Bonfante? Is that your first name...
...cacophony over Revolution Day is only a mild symptom of the Soviet Union's potential dissolution. Perhaps this Gorbachev order will be grudgingly obeyed. But many of the edicts that he has been issuing under a law enabling him, in theory, to govern virtually by decree amount to the unheard roars of a paper tiger. In some cases the Kremlin and the republics have been playing out a ritualized farce. The center, as it is now called, issues a Gorbachev decree; one or more republics declare it to be null and void on their territory; Gorbachev issues a second order...
Such suggestions, however, go unheard in the storm of protest that erupts whenever anyone even raises these ideas. Politicians would sooner face Iraqi tanks than irate seniors, whose favorite form of low-impact aerobics is pulling the lever in voting booths. Nearly 61% of Americans 65 and over voted in 1986, compared with about 22% of those between the ages of 18 and 24. Meanwhile, the American Association of Retired Persons, with 31 million members and a 1988 budget of $236 million, is among the most powerful lobbies on Capitol Hill. Alongside it is the even more militant National Committee...
...year-old playing with the maturity and facility of men twice his age," he says. "He was the ideal person to appeal to a young marketplace and revive the larger audiences that had been into acoustic jazz in the '50s." Butler promptly signed the new artist and devised an unheard-of marketing strategy: simultaneous record releases in both the jazz and classical idioms. Marsalis' first Columbia jazz album won a 1983 Grammy nomination. The following year he hit pay dirt: double Grammys, one each in the jazz and classical genres. "From that point on," says Butler, "his career just blossomed...