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...reached. "Rabin believes that the expectations the Israeli public has of him are very high," says Gad Yaacobi, designated to become Israel's next U.N. ambassador. "He would like to fulfill them early on in his term so as not to erode his political capital." In a more concrete vein, Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer announced that the government was for the moment freezing all public housing starts in the settlements and was determining what to do with thousands of units already begun. Israel hopes its eagerness to make progress on this contentious issue will allow it to enlist Washington...
...taught in school that theirs is the only state in America that, surrounded by a wall, could survive on nothing but its own products. The old boast was never true, but it was important to believe it, to find some blessing in the state's isolation. The most persistent vein of folklore in the state tells how a traveler so befuddled as to end up in Arkansas can be gulled with impunity by natives who are amused at this man from Mars...
Things went on in this vein for a few more songs. From where I was standing in back (out of the splash zone) I got a pretty good view of the crowd. They seemed surprisingly unaffected by the carnage onstage. Most of these straggly teenagers weren't laughing, they weren't flinching, they just sort of bounced to they beat. They didn't appear to be viewing this with quite the sardonic enthusiasm of most fans of cult culture...
...American musical ever had a better book or funnier and more truthful lyrics, and few had so many catchy, jubilant tunes in one score. Only a handful have mined a literary vein as rich as Damon Runyon's wry stories that transmuted thugs into thinkers and louts into Lochinvars, and elevated their gutter parlance into a courtly elocution, full of flowery phrases scrupulously shorn of contractions. While time has been unkind to many landmark musicals, Guys and Dolls has sustained its glowing reputation despite a clumsy 1955 Hollywood rendition with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra and a trendy, swingy...
...January, Christopher Hogwood offered a concert performance, with the Handel and Haydn Society, of Mozart's second and last effort in the serious vein, La Clemenza di Tito. The renewal of these two pieces, which circumscribe Mozart's years of maturity and his best musical output, has been the major revelation in the months after the festivities anticlimaxed with innumerable performances of the Requiem last November...