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Most readers may not recognize the style of painting employed for this week's Man of the Year cover portrait, but Mikhail Gorbachev and his fellow Soviets certainly will. The image is actually the top of a lacquered box. For more than 200 years, artisans in a handful of villages in northern Russia have been turning out such delicately painted artifacts. The boxes have attracted collectors around the world. Art Director Rudolph Hoglund was reminded of the art form when he went to Moscow to find a Soviet artist for this week's project. Hoglund quickly decided that a lacquered...
Linda Jackson, wife of Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson and a collector of the boxes, then journeyed 24 miles north of Moscow to the village of Fedoskino. There she found Nikolai Soloninkin, who holds the title of "merited artist" at the town's famous miniature-painting studio. Artisans of Fedoskino and the nearby village of Danilkovo are believed to have originated the genre, and their exquisitely rendered village scenes and portraiture remain unparalleled. Soloninkin, 42, spent ten days painting Gorbachev's likeness on a 4 3/4-in. by 6-in. papier-mache box that had been slow baked...
...first Man of the Year, that honor has by definition gone to the person who has most influenced the year's events, for good or ill. Gorbachev certainly meets the test. He is also the first Man of the Year whose cover portrait was taken from a lacquered Russian box...
...only inclined but well advised to share their bounty with those less fortunate and to wield their power with discretion. A boyhood chum, Bruce Leadbetter, says one reason Bruce Babbitt is uncomfortable addressing crowds is that "his family always emphasized leading quietly, influencing people, not jumping up on a box and talking down to them...
...Best of Times, Williams went Chaplinesque -- Geraldine, alas, not Charlie -- as a weak geek trying to validate youthful dreams of football glory. And Club Paradise cast him as the ringmaster of a clown caravan. No fair: other guys got to be funny. And not funny: Popeye remains his biggest box-office hit to date...