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...will be an ambassador between you and Gorbachev, Mr. President," says Horowitz. Taking Wanda's arm, he introduces her. "And this is my wife. Did you know that she is the daughter of Toscanini?" As Reagan takes Wanda's hand, photographers snap the scene furiously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Meeting with the Stunks | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...director who derived his greatest cinematic satisfactions--and some of his biggest successes--by flouting film-industry conventions, taboos and the studio system with such films as The Moon Is Blue (1953), which treated seduction wittily and used then banned words like virgin; The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which graphically depicted drug addiction; Anatomy of a Murder (1959), with its detailed courtroom discus sion of a rape; and Exodus (1960), for which he defied McCarthyist blacklisting by hiring Scenarist Dalton Trumbo; of cancer; in New York City. A successful producer-director in Vienna before coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 5, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Leonard won his next start too, and while he lost the one after that to the New York Yankees, 2-1, neither his leg nor his arm was to blame. It was his glove. The following morning, he was greeted by his son Ryan, 8. "Dad, I heard you lost last night." "Yeah, I screwed up an easy double play, threw the ball over everything and ended up with three errors." Ryan laughed so hysterically Leonard had to join...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Money Pitcher Comes Back | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Identity believers elsewhere. Robert J. Mathews, who left Aryan Nations, Butler's umbrella organization for racists, and formed the Order, died in a 1984 gunfight with federal agents after a crime spree; other Order members drew prison terms of up to 100 years. In Arkansas last year, a heavily armed camp of another Identity group, the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, surrendered to state and federal officers who confiscated a large arms cache and 30 gal. of cyanide. The leader was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the Midwest, Identity ideas are frequently espoused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Sinister Search for Identity | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Nancy Reagan listened, the leg of her chair slipped off the edge of the platform, and she pitched into a row of potted yellow chrysanthemums. "I'm all right," she hurriedly reassured everyone. "I just wanted to liven things up." She regained her seat, and Horowitz put a protective arm around her. "This is why I did that," said the First Lady, smiling at Horowitz and accepting a gallant Old World hand kiss as guests clapped. "Honey," riposted the President, "I told you to do it only if I didn't get any applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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