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Instead of the customary caricature portraying him as an American cowboy brandishing nuclear missiles, the front page of the Communist Party daily Pravda carried a shot of Reagan chatting informally with Gorbachev in front of a blazing fire. The Geneva encounter also provided Reagan's debut on Soviet television, which carried the summit's closing ceremonies in full as well as uncensored coverage of Gorbachev's press conference. In Moscow, television stores quickly filled with passersby curious to get a look at Reagan in action...
...keeping track of the medication and care they receive. Now the computer is about to move into the examining room. After 15 years of development, Dr. Jack Myers, 72, an internist, and Computer Engineer and Neurology Professor Harry Pople, 51, both at the University of Pittsburgh, announced the debut of Caduceus, a computer program that has the ability to diagnose some 600 diseases. Named for the physician's snake-entwined staff, it will be field-tested in four hospitals affiliated with the university, beginning late...
What HBO's audience will see when Murrow has its debut next week is an earnest if unexceptional docudrama that exhibits most of the genre's virtues and vices. The script, by Ernest Kinoy (Roots), cogently dramatizes many of the issues that faced TV's news pioneers, from blacklisting to the gathering pres sure for ratings. When CBS Chairman William Paley (Dabney Coleman) breaks the news to Murrow that his acclaimed documentary series See It Now is losing its weekly time slot, he tries to soften the blow by lavishing praise on the program and promising a series of specials...
...Maybe This Time and For Once in My Life. An album, Pia and Phil (short for Philharmonic), has also been well received. "I'm thrilled," says Zadora. "A whole new world is opening up." Apparently so. In two weeks she will make her debut on the hallowed stage of New York's Carnegie Hall. Who would have ever guessed...
...Opera should take part in Rondine's restoration comes as no surprise. Founded in 1954, the company has always been a prime exponent of Italian opera in the U.S., a kind of La Scala West. Under Carol Fox, its late founder and general manager, Maria Callas made her American debut in a sizzling Norma, and the Lyric became home to such 1950s and '60s legends as Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano and Baritone Tito Gobbi. By 1980, though, economic troubles had put the company $300,000 in the red, and Fox was forced to resign...