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...spite of such skepticism, minimalism has grown rapidly in popularity. Last fall, Glass's visionary opera Satyagraha sold out five performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music after being performed successfully at Artpark in upstate New York and in Europe. At the Royal Palace in Amsterdam last May, Glass's newest music-theater piece, The Photographer, was premiered at a command performance for Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands. And in Chicago this summer, 10,000 listeners at Grant Park lustily cheered a performance of Adams' powerful 1981 choral piece, Harmonium. "When I was a student," says Adams...
...spite of outraged educators, Texas A & M University hired a football coach, Jackie Sherrill, for $1.7 million, reportedly the largest financial package ever offered to anyone at an American University...
...largely an unfair image, however. Mitterrand is a devoted friend of Israel's as his historic trip to Jerusalem in April and his unwavering support for the Jewish state since 1948 attest. He has stuck to those stands in spite of the terrorism of the last few months. But the President, on the other hand, also believes a Palestinian homeland is both right and necessary. One of his advisors explains: "In the long run, killing off the PLO is not going to help Israel. There will always be a Palestinian movement, each day, more and more frustrated. Better to maintain...
...find the Arctic Ocean more frightening than any other region I have traveled through, certainly more hostile than Antarctica." In spite of their success, neither Fiennes nor Burton is anxious to set out again for parts unknown any time soon. "This three-year odyssey has exorcised my wanderlust with a vengeance," said Fiennes. "I have had more than enough." The Transglobe's return to England capped a weekend marked by maritime achievement. Bill Dunlop, 41, a former truck driver from Maine, sailed his 9-ft. ⅞-in. sailboat, Wind's Will, into Falmouth after a 78-day voyage...
...spite of the accuracy of the poem's forecast, Sy is still bewildered by his latest crime. He is now doing six to twelve for the attempted murder of his "lady" in Poughkeepsie. After serving time for the robbery conviction, he began to work with delinquent teenagers, but he got into trouble there too, fighting with the authorities over their rough handling of the kids. "They told me: Everybody does it. I told them: / don't do it. I'm part of everybody." He lost that job and "drank and drank." Then he lost his lady...