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A devoted family man, Wolper is eager for the post-Fourth Stage 3, his return to Los Angeles and his eclectic pastimes. He is an avid collector of Lincoln / memorabilia and Picasso sculptures, an unstinting volunteer for aid to medical research and a nut about the Dodgers. Ahead are projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberty's Ringmaster of Ceremonies | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

Only seven times in the past 16 years has TIME stepped back from its responsibility to the reader for a comprehensive presentation of the week's news to devote the bulk of an issue to a single special subject. This is such an occasion, an unabashed (mostly), eclectic and breezy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jun. 16, 1986 | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

But mere solitude would never hold the eclectic man from Queens. His need to accomplish and excel runs too deep. For 15 years he has scorned vacations. Instead, hard work is more renewing. Cuomo dominates those around him. An excessive talker, he routinely holds listeners captive as he slips into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Diaries, and the Mind | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

It was the latest, though certainly not the last, of the recent charity "megathons." Holding hands in a human chain that, in theory at least, was supposed to stretch from coast to coast, an eclectic, Fellini-like crowd was expected to sing America the Beautiful (key lyric: "From sea to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lending a Helping Hand | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Bolcom's concerto is indeed that. The composer is probably better known as the peerless accompanist for his wife Mezzo Joan Morris in their programs of American popular songs. But his spacious cantata on Blake poems, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, was in contention for 1985's Pulitzer Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Making the Strings Sing Again | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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