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Dole is not too old to be president; he is too mean. He does not have the breadth of vision the job requires. He has spent his entire Senate career as an insider. And during that time he has gained a reputation for having the most vicious wit in the Senate. Old dogs can't learn new tricks, the saying goes; old Senators can't either. JOHN J. DUIGNAN Rosedale, New York...
Ravel's "Tombeau de Couperin" suite opened the program by exhibiting the best qualities of today's BSO. Under Music Director Seiji Ozawa's baton, the orchestra always excels in the playing of modern French masterworks. Add to that experience the wit and insight of Previn, and the result cannot help but please...
Dole's famously cranky wit cannot resist a jab or two. "I didn't think it would happen to me. I thought it happened only to Democrats," he quips. Less predictably, his wry remarks on this April day in 1993, 16 months after surgeons removed his prostate, eventually segue into a discussion of the side effects that keep people from seeking treatment. Despite improvements in surgical technique, the majority of patients suffer at least temporary impotence, and a few also become incontinent. "Unless we talk to each other fairly frankly, we don't learn much in these sessions," he tells...
Today how good does he look? A large retrospective jointly organized by London's Tate Gallery, Paris' Musee d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington (where it is on view through Aug. 20) offers the evidence. Whistler was an artist whose legend as wit, dandy and aesthetic kamikaze--for what was his libel suit against the critic John Ruskin but a suicide mission, compelled by his own claims to "Southern honor"?--continued after his death and became a barrier to appraisal of his work. One would prefer to think that Whistler the artist flies free of Whistler...
Nagano's skills were in ample evidence during the first-ever visit of the adventurous Lyons company to America, part of the 50th-anniversary celebration of the U.N. in San Francisco. Leading Prokofiev's slight, charming fable The Love for Three Oranges, he managed to find wit and poetry in an opera that is often little more than the famous March. Even more impressive was his way with a stripped-down, hopped-up Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev's great ballet. Designed by the Belgrade-born underground-comic-book illustrator Enki Bilal and choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj, this Romeo takes place...