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...successful new risk takers made their fortunes in electronic esoterica. Others have earned megabucks by putting an alluring gloss-on mundane products or performing commonplace services in newer, more efficient ways. In many of the cases, they nursed their creative ideas for years before venturing into the chancy world of profit-and-loss statements. Profiles of five who made...
Franklin Roosevelt was probably a better president than Ronald Reagan is or will be. He may even be, as you claim, our "greatest modern leader." However, that gives no one the right to gloss over the facts of history. Economically, Roosevelt was a failure for eight years. Diplomatically, he allowed the nation to be put in a situation where it could not avoid war. "He made people believe everything would work out all right. And by and large, it did." I guess so, if you consider "all right" the atomic bomb and the Cold War, tangible results of Roosevelt...
...Kempinski's play is a melancholy partita-two characters, six scenes-about a brilliant violinist struck down in her prime by multiple sclerosis, and the psychiatrist who tries to help her. The plot may seem a tasteless gloss on the career-ending disease of Cellist Jacqueline du Pré. But in its London version, there were no easy answers-no answers at all-for this driven young woman. As played by Frances de la Tour, she was a figure of shy, rueful dignity who achieved heroism by confronting her despair...
...pretends that a cultural blitz will gloss over South Florida's woes. Its ultimate salvation rests in its citizens' ability to unite and face the problems they have managed to avoid so long. In the past, South Florida's people have never failed to rise to the challenges that have confronted them. "It's a magic place, it always snaps back," says Mitchell Wolfson, a prominent businessman and member of one of Miami's founding families...
...thing-but Landseer? Yet here he is, in an exhibit that opened last month at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and will go on to London's Tate Gallery in early 1982. And he has been restored with great care, at much expense, in all his Victorian gloss and tearjerking bluffness. One hears again the squalling pibroch and the coarse jests of whisky millionaires tramping the heather. In this microcosm of gillies and grouse feathers, one is made to see as much moral pathos licked into the pink eye of a rabbit as is pulled by most other Victorian...