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The Polgars' success has been as carefully plotted as a Nimzo-Indian Defense. "I knew that any children of ours would be champions since the day my wife and I decided to marry," says their father Laszlo. "He's not joking," Susan explains. "When I was four or five, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Don't Play Around with the Polgars | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

"He was a fabulous young man, a talented pianist, and a gifted teacher of music," Martha H. Davis, co-master of Winthrop House said yesterday. "I can't think of anyone who met him who didn't like him."

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Service Held In Memory Of Winthrop Tutor | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

The FIT show, which runs through May 3, not only has been smartly curated and edited but also imparts a solid, vivid sense of the East Village scene. "It's about clubs, it's about theater, it's about music, it's about fashion," says Richard Martin of FIT, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: East Village Stars and Stripes | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

Director Benjamin's gift for this kind of comic invention (first hinted at in My Favorite Year) is now finely honed. Long is the adorable mistress of frazzled common sense. Hanks poises between panic and exasperation with the kind of weird aplomb Cary Grant used to manage, and Alexander Godunov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coming Unglued the Money Pit | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

What to make of this extraordinary labor? Coles is an erudite, fiercely moral man. But he is not a gifted interviewer, and, judging by his books, rapport with children does not come easily. His interviews feature the usual dutiful responses of youngsters to earnest adult interrogation. The long set speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries The Moral Life of Children by Robert Coles | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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