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...September 16) about Alan Caruba, king of the anti-boredom campaign. I like being bored and I'm not the slightest bit embarrassed by it. There's nothing I can think of that's more fun than waking up late on a Sunday, reading the paper, taking a long nap, watching a golf tournament on TV and calling it an early night...
Inside OMON headquarters, Makutinovich's men go on preparing for a showdown. Some train in hand-to-hand combat and martial arts while others nap in cots, their black berets hanging from posts at their feet. They call each other by nicknames drawn from American action and horror movies: Rambo, Ninja, Krueger. Lieut. Vitali Belkin, commander of one of the five squads that make up the 150-strong unit, says the struggle with the Lithuanian government has already passed the point of compromise. "I don't doubt there will be bloodshed," he says. "Civil war is inevitable...
These artists have enjoyed long careers, and their voices still have the glow that sells out major opera houses. Other voices, once equally remarkable, do not retain their beauty, whether because of physical setbacks or misuse. Marilyn Horne, 57, has lost none of her taste or technique, but the nap is off that mezzo velvet. Hildegard Behrens, 54, an inspired dramatic actress, is now far easier to look at than listen to in the arduous roles she favors. A dozen years ago, handsome Peter Hofmann, 46, was a Wagnerian's dream of a heldentenor; today he mostly sings...
...romantic model before I became a journalist was Hemingway in Paris--work a couple of hours in the morning, drinks before lunch, long nap in the afternoon and dinner with lots of friends," says Range...
...Nowadays, if Rip Van Winkle were to fall asleep in the Soviet Union, he would only have time for a very short nap before finding that everything had changed!" It was Ronald Reagan in a familiar mode, the storyteller. But he had an unusual circle of listeners: the foreign affairs committee of the Supreme Soviet. The former President made a five-day tour of the Soviet Union last week, his first visit to the erstwhile Evil Empire since his 1988 summit with Mikhail Gorbachev. He got a warm greeting from Gorbachev at the Kremlin, where the two embraced like...