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...journalists are waiting in an airport lounge. The voice of an anchorman floats from a flickering television screen: "The Kremlin's new leader remains a mystery . . ." As his words fade, the three men, all TIME editors, board a flight for Moscow on their way to the first interview that Mikhail Gorbachev granted to any Western journalists...
...history of that partnership, from rare daguerreotypes down to today's 35-mm snapshots. The focus of the collection is not on vanity icons of swan-necked ballerinas posing daintily in profile but on visions of grace and power. Two highlights: Max Waldman's grainy, lyrical image of Mikhail Baryshnikov rehearsing an impossibly bravura jete and an anonymous, easy-does-it portrait of Fred Astaire hoofing his way through Three Little Words...
...MOSCOW--Mikhail S. Gorbachev told his people yesterday that U.S.-Soviet relations have improved, but it is still too early to talk about a fundamental change...
...chairman of the Soviet delegation, Victor Karpov, a bluff, crusty veteran of SALT, trotted out virtually all Moscow's old demands and added some new ones for good measure. He went out of his way to stress that his plenary statement had been approved "at the highest level" -- by Mikhail Gorbachev, who had become General Secretary one day before...
...Babbitt has trouble working up a convincing smile. Pete du Pont comes across as an eager accountant, and Al Gore could fit comfortably into the cast of Dynasty. All of them, however, could take a few lessons in TV communication skills from the Soviet Union's new media star, Mikhail Gorbachev...