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...sandy-haired, blue-eyed Ramey cuts a commanding figure onstage. Although shy in private life, he is physically fearless in front of an audience; the burst of acrobatic twisting, leaping and rolling with which Ramey depicts the devil's discomfiture at the end of Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele is one of the most breathtaking spectacles in contemporary opera performance. European companies clamor for his services; two summers ago, the Paris Opera staged a vivid production of Giacomo Meyerbeer's 19th century spectral curiosity, Robert le Diable, just...
...Fearless Frosh...
...adds, "actually, I had a lot of black fabric that had been delivered late, and I had to use it. I just happened to see a '50s movie with Brigitte Bardot." He is similarly resourceful about tapping into an impulse before it becomes a trend, and fearless as well as funny in his ability to meld styles to his whim and will. "This new collection of mine is the Thousand and One Nights," he explains, adding, "I've mixed the 18th century and the Ottomans." A perfect formula, it turns out, for clothes to be worn with both a slink...
...Donnelly, who majored in Soviet studies at the London School of Economics, was struck by the relentlessness and brutality of the KGB. "But in their own way," she notes, "Bonner and Sakharov are every bit as relentless in fighting the system." Friedrich agrees: "It is a story of a fearless woman of indomitable character. It could be a story of a woman against the sea, against Mount Everest -- it has that adventure quality. We always think that the KGB cannot be resisted, but she resisted. You can almost see some wretched Soviet policeman wishing she would just go away...
...diminutive figure, full of fire, Tutu is seemingly fearless when he attacks a mob for giving way to violence. In June, he managed to arrange a cease-fire between young radicals and black vigilantes in the Crossroads camp outside Cape Town. But he can have difficulties controlling some groups of youths. Says he: "Young blacks are becoming increasingly committed to using violence, despite my calls for peaceful change. If I were younger, I would have rejected Tutu a long time...