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...collection without attracting the attention of their wives. Hint: get the little woman to stop counting rifles and start thinking "all those guns." He also offers some badly needed collective nouns, based on the pattern of an exaltation of larks: a sulk of unsuccessful fishermen, a whiff of skunk trappers, a cramp of camp cooks. All of which should beguile McManus' growing cackle of devotees...
...something . . . the city of final destination, the city that is a goal." Once again, the city has become primarily, passionately a city of destination, the goal of millions who want to be rich, or to stop being poor. All over the planet, people who have never had a whiff of New York are determined to become New Yorkers. A nice place to visit? They want to live here, with all their hearts...
...Conlon conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, with John Aler, tenor, and the men's chorus of the Slovak Philharmonic; Erato.) In the Faust legend, the romantics found all the excesses they craved: sex, violence, power, the diabolical, damnation and salvation. And in Franz Liszt, who had more than a whiff of the necromancer about him, the Faust story found an ideal musical interpreter. In works such as Malediction and Totentanz for piano and orchestra, the four Mephisto Waltzes for solo piano and, most ambitious of all, the Faust Symphony, the great piano virtuoso gave free rein to his bursting creativity...
...episodic splendors? The end of a century -- and even more, the end of a millennium -- brings anxiety with it: the unavoidable doubts and mannerisms of the fin de siecle, when every kind of stylistic bubble rises to the cultural surface, swells and bursts with a soft plop and a whiff, while marsh lights flicker and the cultural promoters croak their Aristophanic chorus. The SoHo Tar Pits: heaven for the market, purgatory (or limbo, anyway) for judgment...
Perhaps the most surprising development was a whiff of rebellion within the Conservative Party. An informal group calling itself Conservative Center Forward was launched by about 30 moderate Tory M.P.s, with former Foreign Secretary Francis Pym, 63, as its leader. In calling for measures to ease unemployment and bolster industry through greater investment by the government in the public sector, Pym declared, "This Conservative government has been giving round after round of ammunition to its political opponents. It stands in danger of being sunk by its own shells." Though Pym praised the Prime Minister for her "courage and determination...