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...nothing did Ted Turner earn the nickname Captain Courageous in his sailing days. As skipper of the yacht Courageous, which won the 1977 America's Cup, he had a knack for snatching victory from sure defeat. In the equally competitive and treacherous world of business, the cable-TV king showed his spunk and resilience once again last week. Just as Turner admitted that his quixotic attempt to take over CBS had capsized, he announced two bold new ventures for the burgeoning Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). The Atlanta-based company (1984 revenues: $282 million) will buy the venerable MGM/UA company...
...have often been struck by his meld of nostalgia with bitterness that reflects small-town life in the Midwest. We accept his barbs at our memories of narrow-minded ministers, spinster schoolteachers and children who try to comprehend the town's hypocrisy, simply because Keillor has the knack of laughing with us at our human frailties. He can make us think about our Minnesota forebears without hurting too much. Keillor is all of us who have left the old ways, but who recall the shimmering mists of childhood somewhere in the snow and wheatfields. John Scarborough Madison...
...lost their homes in U.S. bombing attacks. She was famous among journalists in Baghdad for being able to talk herself through any checkpoint. To seal her valuable contacts, she jogged with U.S. military JAGs, and knew countless ministry, police and hospital officials by first name. "With her incredible knack for making friends and her indefatigable investigative pursuits, she taught many of us who were a lot older some things about how to do our jobs," says Walt...
Nicole Kidman is the go-to actress for a certain kind of grownup movie, and she keeps proving why she gets those juicy roles. It's because she can do almost anything. She has a unique knack for letting a wide range of characters live inside her; they radiate through that translucent skin...
...superpower leader with an eye for a photo opportunity and a knack for communicating with the folks out there? A surprising answer could be found last week on Vremya, the Soviet nightly news program, when photographs of Mikhail Gorbachev suddenly filled the screen. There was the 54-year-old General Secretary of the Communist Party, strolling around Moscow, laughing heartily with workers, shaking hands. Now he was sharing a cup of tea in a young couple's apartment, now vigorously pressing the flesh in a factory, now touring a hospital, a classroom, even a supermarket. In all, Gorbachev spent about...