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Youngsters who became stars, like Suzanne Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland, flutter through these pages, but the book is mostly a skillful portrait of the mercurial, infinitely resourceful Kirstein, who is still active, and the half a dozen or so teachers who dominate the curriculum. Listening to them is like sitting around the samovar. Alexandra Danilova, 81 and going strong; Antonina Tumkovsky, a strict classicist, in her fourth decade at the school; the ebullient Andrei Kramarevsky, a more recent immigrant--all speak with characteristic Russian vividness and disdain for the article as a part of speech...
Taylor himself does not claim to have discovered a masterpiece. "It's not Hamlet," he says. "It's a kind of virtuoso piece, a kind of early Mozart piece." Early Salieri would be more like it, but Taylor, who wears an earring rather like the one in Shakespeare's portrait, is learning quickly that all the scholarly world's a stage and all the scholars merely players. "I've always regarded this hoo-ha as slightly absurd," he says, "and once it is over, I shall go back to being as ordinary as dirt." --By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Steven...
...cover, the editors turned to Artist Robert Rauschenberg. He had previously contributed a self-portrait for a 1976 TIME cover story about him. Rauschenberg, who had been visiting China to supervise a show of his work in Peking and Tibet, met with Art Director Rudy Hoglund in Japan. Says Hoglund: "We thought he would be able to suggest something new and revolutionary for a Deng cover." The artist used his firsthand observation and some of his own photographs to create a collage of images, including a scissors cutting a ribbon to show that something new is opening in China. Says...
...Video A docudrama on legendary Newsman Edward R. Murrow has sparked a debate over its portrait of top CBS executives...
...announcement was expected, but it came with an unanticipated bonus. In a nationally televised session of Parliament, President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, standing before a portrait of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founding father, proclaimed an end last week to 8½ years of martial law. As legislators banged their desks in approval, Zia concluded his speech with the rallying cry "Long live the era of democracy!" Opposition politicians, expecting the move, had already labeled Zia's latest steps toward democracy a "fraud." Perhaps in anticipation of so skeptical a response, the wily soldier-politician sprang a surprise: he ended...