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...without realizing it. Ives broke the rules all right, but only after having mastered them as a Yale music student. "I found I could not go on using the familiar chords only," he once said. "I heard something else." In his plural textures and unconventional progressions, he was creative kin to Pound. In his bald and unashamed quoting of pop tunes, he can be said to have prophesied pop art. In the incredible tensions he built up by playing one key or rhythm against another, or in the way he could move dreamily from tender simplicity to the densest...
French Cousin. In California, by contrast, with an equable climate, ample acreage and no legal limitation on where any variety of grape may be grown, vintners and chemists have found that they can produce varietal wines fit, if not for a king, at least for kin...
...When we arrived 15 years ago, we were refugees and wanted to stay as such," says Manolo Reboso (no kin to Richard Nixon's good friend Bebe Rebozo). "We were thinking of returning to Cuba immediately." Reboso fought at the Bay of Pigs and later returned to Miami to work as an architect. "The Cuban community," he says, "is now looking for a political voice," and Reboso is proof that it is finding one. Last November he won a seat on the city commission and was promptly named to a one-year term as vice mayor...
...environment, helping the elderly, creating an energy policy. In contrast, those issues were all favored by Thomson's opponent, David Nixon, 42, president of the New Hampshire senate and-since there is no Lieutenant Governor-the second-highest official in the state. What's more, Nixon, no kin to the ex-President, was as good a campaigner as the crusty Thomson was bad. The result: Thomson won by a margin of nearly...
...problems and intrigues become too intense, Isabelita Perón may exercise her constitutional privilege of stepping down. In that case, Senate President José Antonio Allende (a member of the Popular Christian Party and no kin to Chile's Salvador Allende) would become interim President of the republic until new elections were held. In the first days following Perón's funeral, Isabelita showed no signs of wanting to exercise her constitutional option. The idea of being Latin America's first Presidenta was obviously a powerful pull. Still undecided, however, was whether she would be astute enough to withstand the divisive...