Word: impresario
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Next week's summit shapes up as one of the most interesting human encounters in years. It is going to be one "great communicator" against another chelovek s darom obshcheniya. Gorbachev has nudged Reagan aside as the central actor on the world stage. The Soviet impresario is young and just beginning his reign. Reagan is old and phasing out. Gorbachev has also become part of our politics: his 54% approval rating in the U.S. Gallup poll is higher than that of most American officials. In the secret files that are being sent to the President by his experts, Gorbachev...
...talking toys are cuddly, cute or even particularly appealing. Galoob's Mr. Gameshow ($129) features Gus Glitz, a fast-talking, lacquer-haired impresario who stands atop a blinking, bleeping game board and hosts homemade variations on Wheel of Fortune and other word games. With microphone flailing and jaw flapping, Mr. Gameshow dishes out play money and bad jokes with equal largesse: "Nice jacket. Who shot the sofa...
...form) is unnecessary baggage in today's paper chase. Fisketjon, 33, McInerney's close friend at Williams College in the mid-'70s, pushed Bright Lights when he worked at Random House. He is now editorial director of Atlantic Monthly Press and, as yuppie-fiction's most visible impresario, a celebrity in his own right...
Move over, Zeffirelli. For a $10 million staging of Verdi's Aida this month, Egyptian-born Impresario Fawzi Mitwali rejected sets for the real thing: the Temple of Luxor on the site of ancient Thebes. Besides Tenor Placido Domingo, opening night featured the 525-member Arena di Verona Opera Company, 180 Egyptian soldiers and 200 extras tramping down the Avenue of the Sphinxes...
...impresario? None other than Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, who staged the display as part of a campaign against pornography. Dubbed "Pasqua's Sex Shop" by the press, the antiporn program quickly backfired. An uncooperative President Franois Mitterrand declared that he opposed "all forms of censorship," and former Culture Minister Jack Lang pointedly sent along an erotic engraving by Picasso to be included in the show...