Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...KRONOS QUARTET (Nonesuch). The San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet (Violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, Violist Hank Dutt and Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud) looks like a new-wave band and plays like an iconoclast's image-busting dream come to fiddling life. This disk offers the Balinese- influenced String Quartet No. 8 by the idiosyncratic Australian Peter Sculthorpe, the introspective Quartet No. 3 by conservative Finnish Composer Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass's somber, eight-minute Company, the rarely heard 1942 String Quartet by expatriate American Conlon Nancarrow and, as an encore, an arrangement of Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze...
...make. The French were caught in a particularly embarrassing position. Although Premier Jacques Chirac has taken a tough public line against terrorism, at the time the British broke off relations with Syria his government was engaged in furtive negotiations with Damascus, in an effort to forestall a further wave of bombings like those that terrorized Paris in September and to free the French hostages held in Lebanon. In pursuit of these goals, France reportedly was also in the midst of negotiating an arms deal with Syria, though last week French officials vigorously denied it. Still, Interior Minister Charles Pasqua told...
...most intriguing French activity in the Middle East last week was reported in the Paris daily newspaper Le Monde. The paper said that France, via Algeria and Syria, had arranged a "truce" with Lebanon's Abdallah clan, whom France has held responsible for the September wave of bombings. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, presumed leader of a group called the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction, is serving a four-year term in a French prison for possession of arms, explosives and false documents. According to Le Monde, the terrorist group, based in northern Lebanon, was pressured to hold off on new actions...
...much more than mere pandemonium is taking place. Behind the unusual eruption of financial sound and fury, an electronic upheaval is sweeping Wall Street, drastically reshaping the way stocks are traded and business is performed in the U.S. and around the world. At the center is a wave of computerization that has radically changed the speed of stock trading and injected unprecedented floods of money into the marketplace. For those with the cash or credit, the equipment and the expertise to play in the new market, the times seem utopian. One Manhattan-based private investor who is viewed with...
Something has changed. After 30 years, revolutionary Hungary is now the fattest and freest of all the Soviet satellites. China has discovered the free market. Poland bends to the Roman Catholic Church. Even the Soviet Union is now in the grip of a wave of openness: vital statistics (like infantmortality rates) are being published again; a suppressed antiStalinist film is being released; plane crashes, submarine sinkings and other unsocialist occurrences are being reported...