Word: ardor
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Thus Kissin's Carnegie Hall recital in New York City last month was one of the most eagerly awaited American debuts of the past decade. It proved decisively that the advance word was no mere hype. Schumann's early "Abegg" Variations beguiled with youthful ardor and passion. The same composer's tricky Symphonic Etudes was taken at a daringly slow tempo initially, but Kissin made it work by, in effect, playing the series of challenging variations as if he were inventing the piece as he went along. After intermission, he tamed the ferocious Sixth Sonata by Sergei Prokofiev and concluded...
...Egypt). Some may have joined thinking they would never be called, but most have long accepted that they might be. Now that it has happened, many view their service as a necessary repayment for whatever benefits they have derived from their reserve status; others seem moved by genuine patriotic ardor. Says Army Major George D. Lanning, 41, who last week left his job as superintendent of the Amity School District in Amity, Ore., to assume command of the 35- member 206th Transportation Detachment in Fort Lewis, Wash.: "The group is pumped...
...report from the Resolution Trust Corporation is expected this month, and it figures to stoke congressional ardor to find scapegoats for the S&L mess. The report will examine transactions during 1988, when private investors, at the government's request, scooped up troubled S&Ls and then received whopping federal subsidies for doing so. In 94 cases, entrepreneurs like Ronald ! Perelman, owner of Revlon, and Texas billionaire Robert Bass wound up reaping, on average, $78 for each dollar they invested. Some who received this windfall have argued that their intervention was cheaper than allowing the bankrupt S& Ls to pile...
...found herself more responsive to Leonard Lauder's five-year professional courtship to join the family-owned, $2 billion-a-year business. The wooing had been fun on an international scale -- the occasional lunch in the Bois de Boulogne, the duets of shop talk, the tycoon's equivalent of ardor ("I am a patient man"). But this woman knew what she wanted: "I am not interested in profit improvement, acquisitions or expansion. A place looking for that won't benefit from what I bring. I am a risk taker, and it's a luxury not to have shareholders and Wall...
...struts onstage, and 17,000 New Yorkers start to cheer. Andrew Dice Clay tells jokes for a living -- dirty jokes, stag-party jokes, jokes designed to singe a churchgoer's soul and turn a feminist's stomach -- but he attracts crowds whose size and ardor would thrill a rock star. In sold-out Madison Square Garden, he looks like a samurai biker, with Brando's pout, Elvis' sideburns and a sequined jacket, its back stitched with the phrase DICE RULES. And he does too. He is America's rajah of comic raunch, ready to beguile fans who dress like...