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Soap Bubble. With considerably more clarity, Goldberg posed another question to "those governments which support Hanoi's cause"- principally the Soviet Union. "If the U.S. were to take the first step and order a prior cessation of the bombing," he asked, "what would they then do or refrain from doing, and how would they then use their influence and power?" The Russians, however, quickly made it clear that they had no intention of either reducing their aid to the North or trying to persuade Hanoi to come to terms...
...five-piece tuxedoed orchestra began to play the old marching song, For Boston, For Boston, We Sing That Proud Refrain, and the clerk, in his old-fashioned salt-and-pepper wool suit and scruffy black shoes, shuffled on down to the dance floor to join the jigging mob. The mood at Hicks headquarters was one of vindication and of cockiness, a feeling not too familiar to the people there...
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords . . . At the end, the refrain, "I'd love to turn you on," leads to a hair-raising chromatic crescendo by a full orchestra and a final blurred chord that is sustained for 40 seconds, like a trance of escape, or perhaps resignation...
...Insurance Commissioners. Jones does not hesitate to predict that looting and arson in the ghettos will result in higher insurance premiums and outright policy cancellations. To guard against the latter, both the Michigan and New Jersey state insurance commissioners asked for-and got-pledges that most insurance companies would refrain from canceling ghetto policies for 90 days...
Such a background gives Barenboim a fresh and unabashed outlook on some of the challenging peaks of the piano repertory. Most pianists refrain from tackling Beethoven's 32 sonatas until their ripest years. Barenboim had learned them at 14, played them in a cycle of concerts in London last spring, and is now recording them all on the Angel label. "If you could work to an ideal interpretation, then you'd have to wait to record everything on the day before you die," he says. "All music is something that's made at a certain time...