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...Socialist victory was largely a tribute to the charismatic Gonzalez, who has become one of the brightest stars in Europe's political firmament. Though voters no longer squeal like groupies when the graying-at-the-temples Prime Minister takes a podium, he retains magnetic appeal. "There is less emotionalism than before," says a senior foreign ministry official. "But he can still convince the man in the street." Gonzalez did that last March, when he persuaded a skeptical electorate to vote to keep Spain in NATO...
With terrestrials like Carl Sagan, who needs extras? Five years ago, he brought the cosmos into your living room and became an instant star in the electronic firmament. The astronomer at Cornell now takes aim at the fiction best-seller charts. Contact, his first novel, dramatizes a pet theme: the possibility of unearthly life in the universe. Despite dialogue like "Holy Toledo. That's hundreds of janskys," the book is an engaging pastiche of science and speculation...
...leader of the newest wave, and the fastest-rising star in the political firmament today, is Hu Qili (pronounced Chee-lee), 55, a gifted Communist Youth League activist. Even before the Communist takeover in 1949, Hu Qili was recruited for the league's secretariat while a student at Peking University. ! There he attracted the attention of Hu Yaobang. Hu Qili is now the General Secretary's protege and, according to Politburo Member Peng Zhen, the likely successor. Hu Qili is described as a smooth and charismatic man. "He is what we call both Red and expert," says a middle-level...
...most to open up the vistas of vastus lateralis is Andre Courreges, 41, the brightest new star in the Paris firmament. Courreges set up his shop in 1961, soon became known as the trouser king for his slim, slit-at-the-bottom slacks and his formal trouser suits. This February his pencil-thin mannequins popped out in white dresses cut three inches above the knee and mid-calf boots open at the toe. The high-flying hem was born...
...fact that she is a woman, although that alone explains little, since there are a lot of women composers these days, especially downtown" Rockwell's attitude bespeaks tokenism, and no wonder. Anderson-who is a quite accomplished composer but not by any means a major figure in the musical firmament--is hardly a fair representative of the women in modern American music...