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...Henry Kissinger wanted to talk," said Isaacson, who is also assistant managing editor of Time magazine. "He was very good at talking to reporters. He could play [a reporter] like a violin...
...something terrific is happening out there, but he just can't hear it. The narrator is teenager Jane Singer, second daughter of a gently Jewish family from Cleveland and worshipper of Holden Caulfield. Jane tells about, among others, her mother, who divorces Jane's father and takes up the violin, and her formerly promiscuous sister, who marries an Orthodox doctor and gives birth to a boy Jane jokingly calls "the Little Messiah." Except for eloquent moments, the reader longs for a little verve. Jane is a nice girl who should go to college, marry a nice boy and leave narrating...
Before that was Dambuilders, a nearly hard-core group whose feedback-stuffed guitarwork was topped by nothing less than an electric violin. Their thick sound got the crowd stomping after the opening act, Crow, good-naturedly meandered through a couple bad songs, looking as though they were hearing them for the first time...
...rare. Once society has lost most of its taboos against divorce, it will take unusual commitment, flexibility and loyalty (perhaps fortified by a religious vow) to stick it out. Couples who endure to celebrate their golden anniversaries "will have mastered marriage," says Dychtwald. "It will be like mastering the violin or the cello...
Boston Conservatory Orchestra. PerformMozart's Violin Concerto No. 4, Stravinsky'sDanses Concertantes, Mozart's Symphony No. 40,and Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture on Friday,Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. Seully Hall, 8 The Fenway,Boston. Free. Call 536-6340 for more information...