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...persistently emerged as the top American pianist in his age group. His plat form manner is nononsense, but at the peak of his form he stirs poetry, fire and steel into whatever he plays. At a time when most younger American per formers make their loudest noise in the flashier side of the repertory -Prokofiev, Bartok, Liszt and the more extroverted Chopin - Graffman has matured into a musician able to challenge Europe's best in the more substantial classical and early romantic repertory...
...Cole, author of An End to Chivalry and winner of two O'Henry Awards, will speak on "The Short Story in an Age of Flashier Media" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House...
...name. As Maria I, Moreau drolly helps the cause by improvising bits of the funeral oration from Julius Caesar, although most of the time she plays second banana to Maria II. A tomboyish Mata Hari who spent her childhood in Ireland as a mad bomber, Bardot gets the flashier jobs, manning a machine gun, planting high explosives, swinging from tree to tree like Tarzan...
From a standing start less than 15 years ago, postwar Japan has squeezed into international traffic and passed many flashier rivals to become the world's fourth largest automaker. Last year Japanese production rose 26%, to 1,700,000 cars and trucks, ranking Japan after the U.S., West Germany and Britain, and this year the total is expected...
...company's efforts exclusively in the compact field. Though Romney is now Governor of Michigan, AMC is still selling Romney-selected compacts because of the two-year lead time needed to produce new models. Meanwhile, the auto-buying public's taste has strongly swung back to bigger, flashier and more luxurious cars. Compacts now account for only 18% of auto sales, and AMC is stranded without the right variety of cars for today's prospering auto market...