Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agent, publicist or manager, but the trade-offs of independence are worth it. "What I get is peace of mind, sanity. I have control over my work. That outweighs everything else," he says. "So I don't get invited to Hollywood parties. So I'm not on the Hollywood circuit. So I don't own a home in Beverly Hills. So Barbara Walters doesn't include me in her specials. I don't give a s about all that stuff...
According to Kessler, the National Security Agency did indeed find Soviet bugs in the code room in August 1987. The KGB had replaced key circuit boards in the printers; it had also replaced the power line to the communications center. The reprogrammed circuit boards sent an uncoded copy of the text of all State Department and CIA message traffic to the new power line, which could carry it out of the embassy and into the hands...
...early months of the investigation, a number of smoking guns were found in this equipment. But one by one they turned out to be innocuous. The first was a circuit board that had been replaced but not sprayed with a special plastic that "tagged" it as an authorized repair. American officials were afraid the KGB had installed this circuit board to reroute uncoded U.S. message traffic. But the device was tested by NSA experts, who found that it did nothing improper. Security officials later discovered that some State % Department technicians had never been told about the secret tagging program...
...first thought about stopping in 1974, when his father died, and then his manager, Sol Hurok. "I adored both of them," he says. "It was really quite a blow." And the virtuoso circuit was exhausting. "The life of a musician is the most solitary life. Sometimes I did find it very difficult." Cliburn never made any sharp break, just gradually stopped accepting new engagements, spent more time visiting friends (he lives with his mother, Rildia Bee, now 92), composing piano pieces, buying English antiques, presiding over the quadrennial piano competition that bears his name, working out, enjoying himself...
...told TIME before he journeyed abroad, going back on the "mashed- potato circuit," admittedly upgraded to include palaces and potentates. But his message will be the same: the triumph of freedom. He delivered it eloquently in London's Gothic Guildhall and in Paris, where fireworks heralded the 100th birthday of a great lady, the Eiffel Tower...