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...comment on his expansive style that he was nicknamed "Supremo" by staffers during World War II, when he served as Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia. To the royal family he was "Dickie" (though Richard was not one of his string of given names, which were Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas). He was the last Viceroy of India, who in 1947 presided over the fade-out of the British raj. He went out of this world at 79 (blown up in 1979 by I.R.A. terrorists while boating in Donegal Bay) as Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma...
...date but the form and scope of any world-trade negotiations. It is still possible that a conference involving the 90 nations belonging to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade will be called; Mitterrand agreed that France would participate in planning for one, but laid down a string of conditions that France's partners would find difficult to meet. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz stated U.S. eagerness to talk trade liberalization with any groups of nations, or even individual countries, that are willing to deal if a GATT conference could not be convened. But such piecemeal negotiations would...
...rare appearance at the Orpheum a few months back was a pretty depressing affair if you weren't looking for a high school pick-up. With most of the musical action programmed into the array of synthesizers and organs, vocalist Gore was left prancing about like a second-string Rod Stewart, with material that could never approach the Rod's exquisitely terrible haunchraunch. The rest of the band was strapped to their machinery, tapping out melodies with one, two, and sometimes even three fingers. Depeche Mode gave good beat, but in a frenetic concert atmosphere pumped up by the attention...
Their debut album, Ratilesnake, has crawled into a dark hole in the charts, but it contains understated pop that, while not obviously challenging doesn't dip into the insultingly trivial Rattlesnake suffers from overly wimpy production with Barry Manilow string backups and too little bass or drum support one almost thinks that 'Producer Paul Hardiman' is a pseudonym for James Taylor...
Vosgerchian, who could not be reached for comment, teaches the popular Literature and Arts B-54, "The Development of the String Quartet" and Music 51, "Theory...