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...journalist's curiosity and a practiced eye for the pleasures of life, he has a knack for making destinations sound both seductive and easily negotiable. And the best part of it is that he is usually right. His long section on Britain is dead-on, and written with infectious gusto. His list of the best small restaurants in Venice would take even frequent visitors years of trial and error to draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Sep. 1, 1986 | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...prostitute," he says, laughing. "I'm never off duty." As he chats with TIME's Cathy Booth in the living room, Betsy, 64, bustles about merrily nearby, rattling the dishes and deflecting phone calls intended for her husband. When the two pose for pictures, they ham it up with gusto. He kneels to propose marriage, and she says, "Here we are, a couple of old survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Andrew Wyeth's Stunning Secret | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...pulpit and address themselves to a constituency that feels embattled and disenfranchised, they differ in race, personality, theology and cultural attitudes. From opposing ends of the political spectrum, each of them is playing a similar role in his party's early maneuvering for 1988 -- and playing it with a gusto that promises (or threatens) to alter significantly the shape and outcome of the long presidential campaign that lies ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping the Faith | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...attitude to your tasks. You should go about your business with some measure of enterprise, of seriousness, of good humor and of interest. I do not mean to recommend, as the Schlitz Brewing Co. did some years back, that 'You only go around once, so grab all the gusto you can.' I'm not talking about grabbing gusto or swilling beer. I'm talking about living well, living a life worth living. I offer the wise words of the Maharani of Jaipur. She said once, 'Keep an open mind; an open mind is a very good thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Few Words Before Going Forth | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...piece ultimately proves ephemeral, so what? Tastes change, and each generation has the right to its own repertoire, if only it will exercise it. Classical music need not be so unrelentingly obsessed with its place in history. "Think of forgotten music that was played in the past with gusto and pleasure," says Luca, perhaps recalling the ghosts of Spontini and Spohr. "I am willing to take a chance that someone down the road will decide one day not to play the piece." And instead of a war-horse, play something...

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

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