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...search for systems and structures to support his musical vision. Although some of his music can seem as severe as his customary costume of unadorned white shirt and dark trousers, there is a deep warmth in his best works: Music for 18 Musicians (1976), one of Reich's longest (nearly an hour) and texturally richest pieces, infused with an uncharacteristic sense of brooding and menace; the Octet (1979), a sunny minimalist ode to joy; and Tehillim...
DIED. Sobhuza II, 83, king of Swaziland and the longest-reigning monarch in the world; in Mbabane, Swaziland. The autocratic but mild-mannered Sobhuza ruled his small, landlocked southern African nation of 550,000 by balancing observance of his country's ancient traditions with gradual introduction of modern technologies. A man of simple tastes, he shunned his two royal palaces, preferring to live at his kraal of mud huts and to sleep outdoors on warm nights on a reed mat. He is survived by more than 100 wives and an estimated 500 children...
There on the quayside, drawn up like grenadiers in gleaming royal-blue livery, stand the 17 cars of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Europeens. Waxed mirrorbright, they make up the longest (400 meters) passenger train in all Europe. Its eleven wagons-lits, three restaurant cars and bar car, all first class, can accommodate 194 passengers; there are two cars for the crew of 30. It may be the greatest display of grandeur the Boulonnais have seen since Napoleon and his army gathered there in 1805 for an invasion of England that never took place...
Begin replied to the criticism in an 87-minute speech, his longest in the Knesset since he became Prime Minister. Then the debate shifted to a special Cabinet meeting, which had been called by Sharon himself. Although the burly ex-general had been running the war more and more on his own, on this occasion he solicited the Cabinet's support for a series of tactical moves around Beirut as part of the Israelis' continuing effort to strengthen their military positions. Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich, who had generally supported Sharon in the past, immediately declared that...
...Facetiously, he reminds us, is one of the few words in which all the vowels appear in the proper sequence; duoliteral is one of the even fewer in which they all appear backward. Kinnikinnik, he reports, is not only an Indian smoking mixture of bark and leaves but the longest palindrome among the 450,000 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Cuspidor is the word that James Joyce declared to be the most beautiful in the entire language...