Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early one morning last week, a black sedan wheeled through the imposing gates of No. 1-19-12 in Tokyo's exclusive Mejiro district. When the car stopped at a large villa, two men got out, showed their identification at the door and asked to see the master of the house. Within a few hours, bull-necked Kakuei Tanaka, 58, Premier of Japan from 1972 to 1974 and still regarded as the tough, calculating "computerized bulldozer" of his country's dominant political party, had been booked at a police station and signed into a cell at the Tokyo...
Even more puzzling, given Rosenbaum's known antipathies to Felkerism, is Kramer's choice of master cosmetician, or design director, as they are known in these circles. In charge of the new layout is Milton Glaser, about as close an associate as Felker has--design director for both The Voice and New York, as well as chairman and vice-chairman of various Felker publishing companies. Glaser's work is appropriately glossy--with the ever-legitimizing Marlboro Man on the back cover and an uninspired Spiro Agnew elongation on the front, plus a new logo without the brackets--since [MORE...
...involvement in Southeast Asia came full circle last week. Air Force Master Sergeant George Leroy Davis, 40, of Cincinnati, packed his bags and, with his wife and two children, flew out of Bangkok. Though some 250 U.S. military advisers will remain in Thailand, U.S. authorities designated Davis as a symbol of the last regular American forces to leave the country-and, in fact, all of Southeast Asia...
...ambitious undertaking for a man who by day is a successful rock songwriter. "When I was 13, I got an autograph from Igor Stravinsky," Zevon recalls. That inspired him to start teaching himself harmony and counterpoint and even to bring a few fledgling compositions to the master's home for his inspection. "When puberty hit, I turned to rock," Zevon goes on. "I could see that when the average attention span is three minutes, it would be hard to get people to spend an hour listening to my symphony...
That quintessential 19th century optimist W.E. Henley-who can ever forget or forgive him?-wrote the unflappable lines that still seem to embroider a motto on his age: "I am the master of my fate;/ I am the captain of my soul." The world, it appeared in those innocent times, belonged to the romantic individualist with a whim of iron. Even pessimists like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche celebrated the indomitable will. Not to mention Horatio Alger...