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...Soviet government's astonishingly blunt report on Chernobyl is but one of a number of examples of Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness. In recent months Soviet officials and journalists have been discussing the difficulties and shortcomings of their society with unprecedented candor, and newspaper and magazine editors have been publishing more and more critical letters from readers...
...moment expostulating before a trio of dark-suited subordinates and the next pondering an advertising display among a group of young designers clad in a palette of pale blue variations on his own favorite garb. Lauren pays his employees well and rewards loyalty, but he can be a blunt taskmaster. "He is absolutely terrible about hiding his feelings," says Buffy Birrittella, Polo/Ralph Lauren's vice president for advertising and communications. In an industry notorious for its creative egos, Lauren has long enjoyed a reputation for relative humility, but that could be changing. During the past year...
Besides the conflicts between a handsome but hopelessly starchy President and his smoldering wife Sadie, Quinn recounts the passions and jealousies of Allison, an ambitious reporter, and her lover and professional rival Des, a blunt newsmagazine bureau chief. "Jesus, I don't know why I'm so horny all of a sudden," Des says. "I guess nothing turns me on like a good story." To Washingtonians, the two sound suspiciously like Quinn and her husband Ben Bradlee, the executive editor of the Washington Post and a former Newsweek bureau chief. "Both Allison and Sadie are partly me," Quinn confesses. "Some...
...Chinese government sent a blunt reminder last week of its determination to keep foreign journalists on a leash. New York Times Bureau Chief John Burns was detained for 15 hours at Peking's Shoudu Airport as he and his family tried to leave the country on a vacation. Officials from the Peking Public Security Bureau told the U.S. embassy that Burns was being investigated for "entering an area forbidden to foreigners, gathering intelligence information, and espionage." After being questioned at the airport, Burns was first escorted to his Peking apartment, where security officers conducted a two-hour video-taped search...
These shortcomings do not blunt Nickleby's potent storytelling; they affirm it. In 1981 the show seemed a magic moment in which acting, directing and design had come together to create something wonderful yet ephemeral. The passage of time and the revival by other hands, even if imperfect, allow audiences to see that Nickleby is a permanent, and major, contribution to the literature of the stage...