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...evening of opera at Versailles, Gorbachev gave perhaps his most compelling public performance in the wake of his final private session with Mitterrand on Friday. During a joint one-hour, 45-minute press conference in the Elysee's crystal-chandeliered Salle des Fetes, Gorbachev was at times expansive and jovial. At others -- when questioned yet again about Jewish emigration, for example -- he chopped the air with stiffened fingers and reddened with barely controlled anger. Gorbachev joked about what he described as U.S. arms-control flip-flops, and lectured the international press on its "responsibility" to serve the world's political...
...National Gallery of Art. But he went on to defend the Administration's military buildup as well as the controversial Star Wars plan. Later, Senators Joseph Biden, Gary Hart, William Cohen and Nancy Kassebaum gave a bipartisan critique of the Administration's defense and foreign policies, amid some jovial byplay between Hart and Biden on the approaching 1988 presidential campaign. After a vigorous exchange on policy, several of the visitors expressed surprise at how prominent an issue defense was in the U.S. Said Rowland C. Frazee, chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada: "I could go to a similar group...
Papandreou did not seem overly concerned that he had missed seeing Chernenko or Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, who is widely assumed to hold the No. 2 spot in the Kremlin. At a reception in the Greek embassy, Papandreou was in a jovial mood. As a folk singer rendered an old Russian favorite, Kalinka (Little Snowball Tree), in a throaty voice to the accompaniment of a balalaika and harmonica, the Prime Minister rose and, while 100 guests cheered him on, performed a graceful sirtaki, circling around with his arms raised over his head, like a man much younger than...
...eminent Soviet expert on Asia, and China in particular, was Mikhail Kapitsa. Erudite and capable, gregarious and jovial, Kapitsa would undoubtedly have moved faster if he had not received a black mark in his dossier and a deep scar on his head when, as Ambassador to Pakistan in 1961, he took up with his driver's wife. The chauffeur discovered the liaison. Rushing into the Ambassador's office, where Kapitsa was using his couch as a bed, the infuriated husband clouted the diplomat on the head with a crowbar. He might have killed Kapitsa if aides had not come...
With his tall and portly frame, his gleaming bald head and jovial, Buddha- like countenance, James Beard was central casting's dream of a food writer come true. Almost until his death last week of a heart attack following a kidney infection, Beard, 81, remained a monumental and genial presence in New York City food markets and restaurants, where his passion for good eating invariably proved contagious. Displaying a grand flair for showmanship refined by early training for the stage, he created dramatic settings for his cooking classes, for his writing and entertaining, and for his superb collection of majolica...