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...capitalism in the Third World, are "really neat." He is proud of his erudition, using French phrases like elan vital, but he sometimes tosses out strange neologisms, like "braggadocious." His tastes are unabashedly middlebrow. He saw the musical Les Miserables three times and with characteristic gusto has become a one-man ad for the show, telling people that "it's the best musical since Man of la Mancha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Jack Kemp:The Quarterback Of Supply Side | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

Bourbeau capped off his one-man show in the middle of the second period when he eluded two St. Lawrence defensemen and fed a pretty pass to C.J. Young for the Crimson's fourth goal of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHT | 3/17/1987 | See Source »

...More One-Man Show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Network Aids the Third World | 3/11/1987 | See Source »

...first hard evidence that Deng was slipping came on Feb. 16, when major Chinese newspapers published a 1962 speech he made attacking Mao Tse-tung for both his one-man rule and his disastrous economic policies during the Great Leap Forward of 1958-60. Some observers took this as an attack on Deng's own leadership. Said one Asian diplomat: "I can't believe Deng wanted that old speech to be printed. It is too easy to interpret as an attack on himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Battle of the Octogenarians | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...minute opera tape and then play it on the piano and sing it flawlessly. In New York, interest has centered on William Britt, 53, who lived for many years in an ) institution on Staten Island for the mentally retarded. Britt is attending a community college and has had two one-man shows of his paintings. In Connecticut, one 31-year-old man, diagnosed as autistic when a child, has become a gifted pianist. In Baton Rouge, La., Kathy Dial, a child with severe brain damage, has a vocal repertoire of some 300 songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: They All Have High Hopes | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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