Manifesto

Had a considerable influence on the development of 20th century poetry, as both poet and critic. He is best known for "Homage to Sextus Propertius" and "Mauberly," (1920). His great life's work is the lengthy, "Cantos." Born in Hailey, Idaho, and reared on the East Coast, Pound spent most of his career in Europe where he wrote, lectured and produced publications, including Vorticism and two issues of its manifesto, Blast, in 1914 and 1915. A champion of great writers like T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and James Joyce.

Soviet artist Valery Stigneev scrutinizes a group of student photographs with a concentration many artists reserve for their own work. As his dark eyes dart back and forth, comparing, evaluating, he taps several images gently, almost as if he were encouraging them. He communicates with this work in a way that vaults the barriers between Russian and English.The series of nearly a dozen black-and-white photographs expresses a day in the life of LaShawn Johnson's mother. It was shot at Johnson's home in northeast Baltimore.

NEW YORK -- Breaking his public silence, David Kaczynski described in an interview how he had reluctantly come to the "horrible" realization that his older brother, Theodore, could be the Unabomber. He recounted his anguished decision to turn him in to prevent more lives from being lost, and he pleaded that his brother, if convicted in the fatal bomb attacks, be spared the death penalty.Over six hours on Tuesday, David Kaczynski recalled how, at first, he had resisted his wife's suggestions last summer that Ted might be the Unabomber.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- Clint Van Zandt has a particular skill and partly because of it Theodore J. Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, is in custody today.It all began for Mr. Van Zandt with a call in December to his home in Fredericksburg. A woman investigator from Chicago wanted to know if what she had heard about him was true:Could he compare separate documents and determine if they had been written by the same person? Not by the handwriting, but by the vocabulary, sentence structure, the punctuation?

WHAT THE Democrats don't need, as one wag put it, is another Greek from Massachusetts. Yet there was Paul Tsongas [last] week, arms outstretched almost sacrificially, braving the rains in post-industrial Lowell, Mass., his old stomping ground, announcing that he's ready to take on President Bush in '92. . . .OK, he's a long shot even within his own underdog party, but . . . Tsongas is doing something that national Democrats have been avoiding far too long. He's talking about breaking stride with comfortably familiar Democratic positions-as-usual.

Time crawls, time flies, depending on how you use it. What can happen in four hours, 21 minutes -- besides Tuesday's longest 9-inning baseball game in history.Secretariat runs Kentucky Derby 130 times.Average runner places 23,541st in the 100th Boston MarathonThe late Artur Rubinstein plays the Minute Waltz 145 times (Yes, it takes almost two minutes. go figure.)Watch Ken Burns "The Civil War" three of eight episodes (minus Lincoln freeing the slaves)Computer whiz downloads Plato's Republic 32 times (using Pentium 90 mhz and a 28.8 kpbs modem)

Ah, the Computer Age. What a great time to be alive -- until the power goes out. Then what do you do? Twiddle your thumbs until the statewide power grid reboots itself? Well, you and your treasured manifesto-Great American Novel-haiku wouldn't have to wait if you had this 1960s model Olivetti manual typewriter. Made of steel and built like a tank, it works on the best CD-ROM you'll ever find: your brain. But, it'll take some getting used to. There's no delete key, no automatic return and -- gasp!

Just announced Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus -- Verizon Center in Washington on Jan. 7 and 1st Mariner Arena on Jan. 8. Tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. 410-547-SEAT or ticketmaster.com. Chimes' Hall of Fame concert starring Liza Minnelli -- Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Oct. 27. 410-783-8000. Mr. Greengenes -- Rams Head Live on Nov. 10. 410-244-1131 or ramsheadlive.com. The Tragically Hip -- 9:30 Club in Washington on Oct. 26. 800-955-5566 or tickets.com. Ween -- Sonar on Nov. 23. 410-327-8333 or ticket master.

Ezra Rachlin, 79, a pianist and conductor who was the longtime music director of the Austin Symphony Orchestra in Texas, died in London Saturday after vascular surgery. He lived in London, where he performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonia and the Halle Orchestra, for more than 20 years. He was the conductor in Austin for 20 years until 1969, and chief conductor of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane, Australia, from 1970 to 1972.Takezo Shimoda, 87, a former ambassador to the United States and Japan's one-time baseball commissioner, died Sunday of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital.

"So far as most critics are concerned, screenwriters, like London fogs before painters discovered them, do not exist." So writes the witty and provocative David Kipen in The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History, a "manifesto" meant to credit the oft-ignored inky wretches who write screenplays. But with credit can come condemnation. That's the case with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, the man most responsible for the shambles of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.