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Dobrynin was successful at conflating a pro-American personal inclination with the policies of the Soviets. When Ronald Reagan was told that Dobrynin had been promoted to the rank of Secretary of the International Relations Department of the Communist Party and would not be returning as an ambassador, he asked, amazed: "Is he really a communist?" The effective blurring of Dobrynin's official position on matters and his own character keeps the reader perpetually guessing at whose side he was really on all that time. In the person of Dobrynin, yet another thread is added to the already complex fabric...
...years, plus one for luck. "Sinatra brought a physical vitality to his music that was unique," says TIME's Martha Duffy. "He's one of the few people, like Paul McCartney, who has kept the ballad tradition alive. As a singer, he's truly an artist of the first rank. He doesn't debase a line, and his phrasings bring out the real meaning of a song." On Thursday, ABC television will air a two-hour birthday special, which was taped in November. Among the stars who gathered to honor the "Chairman of the Board" are: Ray Charles, Bob Dylan...
...ivories with Richard Dreyfuss in 1980's The Competition. Prominent women instrumentalists have been much rarer in real life. During the first half of the 20th century, the severely beautiful Erica Morini, who died last month at 91, was one of the few who could lay claim to first-rank status. And Morini bristled at her categorization as a female violinist. "A violinist is a violinist, and I am to be judged as one--not a female musician," she said...
...freshman J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, to make the sales pitches on talk shows and press conferences. Gingrich has even vowed to get more sleep. The self-benching has some Gingrich aides worried about the "message vacuum" that will be left in his wake, but that's a problem some rank-and-file Republicans are happy to endure. Says Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut: "We want him to pay more attention to his personal conduct...and don't give Democrats ammunition...
...unison and perform a quadruple twist. It was after Calgary that they fell in love, and in 1991 they married in Moscow. Katia gave birth to their daughter Daria in 1992, but they continued to skate together professionally. For Lillehammer in '94, G and G returned to the amateur rank, and they were so transcendent that they won the gold despite a couple of slips. According to John Nicks, a U.S. Olympic coach, "the change in their relationship into a loving, caring, mature union changed their skating for the better...