Word: wildes
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...Internet. But those hackers are a wily sort. Using his father as an agent, Mitnick has been conducting an online celebrity auction (if you consider a techno-felon a celebrity), selling off his cell phone for $355 and getting $510 for his TRS-80 computer. Geek love ran wild when Mitnick's prison ID card went up for sale; that's when eBay decided there might be some legal issues here. After the site stopped the auction and Yahoo and Amazon also refused to participate, Mitnick found a willing auctioneer in dutchbid.com where six bidders have moved the card...
...American pianist Earl Wild, who just turned 85, is the last of the great Romantics, a tradition of spellbinding virtuosos that began with Liszt and flowered before World War II with the "Golden Age" pianists--such legends as Paderewski, Hofmann, Godowsky and Rachmaninoff. Like them, Wild produces gorgeous sounds at any speed or volume, possesses vitalizing musical instincts and revels in the kinetic and sensual possibilities of the piano: its potential to evoke the grandeur of an orchestra and lyricism of a singer...
...Wild's still omnipotent fingers transform the instrument into a source of marvels. He can electrify audiences with an impossibly demonic performance of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, move them with an achingly tender account of a Sonetto del Petrarca by the composer or do both with the Manichean Sonata in B Minor...
Looking as vigorous as he plays, Wild celebrated his birthday last week with a Carnegie Hall recital, consisting primarily of 13 works by Brahms, Liszt and Chopin, among them Brahms' Rhapsody No. 2, Liszt's Ballade No. 2 and Chopin's Ballade No. 1. Wild created ravishing mini-dramas of these demanding, emotionally expansive scores. He has just released a new CD, 20th & 21st Century Piano Sonatas (Ivory Classics...
...pols, pundits and principals alike all peered over the brink of a big decision by a split Supreme Court, Democrats all got asked if Scalia was on record endorsing George W. Bush, and Republicans were all invited to denounce the wild and crazy Florida Four. (Thus cramming the four dissenting Supremes into an even tinier Democratic box.) Often enough, the consiglieres obliged...