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Charles Mingus: Epitaph (Columbia). Composer-musicologist Gunther Schuller leads an all-star big band in a definitive live performance of the monumental suite -- raw, raucous and richly textured -- by a pioneer figure of modern jazz...
Soundest Dietary Restriction The 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act mandates standard definitions of such terms as light and lowfat, bans misleading claims and requires food producers to list the amount of dietary fiber and saturated fat in raw seafood, fruit and vegetables as well as on most packaged-goods labels...
...September 1981 we were told by the Soviets that the following year they would be able to supply us with ) only 4 million tons of crude oil, compared with the normal 13 million tons. We were also warned that there would be similar proportional reductions in supplies of other raw materials, including cotton. Other members of the bloc would have reacted in a similar fashion. In other words, a total economic blockade awaited us unless we resolved our internal problems...
...would have been impossible on such a scale. It was a question not only of raw materials but of cooperation and markets. Our economy was based on specific trading patterns within Comecon. Hundreds of enterprises were working to produce goods for the Soviet economy, goods the West would not buy because of quality or other factors. We could not switch overnight, and we still cannot do it today. Imagine the scenario had the opposition ((Solidarity)) taken over in the autumn of 1981 and inherited such an economic situation on the eve of winter, when there were already serious shortages...
...documentary re-creates the sad final chapter of Monroe's career: her work on Something's Got to Give, the 20th Century Fox film left uncompleted when she died in August 1962. The hourlong special (Thursday, Dec. 13, 9 p.m. EST, the Fox network) unveils raw footage that had been thought lost until it was discovered in a warehouse on the Fox lot in 1982. Written and narrated with nicely understated affection by producer Henry Schipper, the documentary gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse of a Hollywood star -- and a Hollywood studio -- in extremis...