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Creating a shrewd editorial mix of celebrity profiles, newsy features and provocative photos (most notoriously, last year's cover photo of a nude, very pregnant Demi Moore), Brown brought Vanity Fair high profits and nearly 1 million readers. At the same time, she made herself a figure to reckon with on the Manhattan scene: good-looking, Oxford-educated, a sometime playwright, married to Harold Evans, former editor of the Times of London and now head of Random House (yes, another Newhouse jewel...
...group, contends that normal families do not practice what she calls "harassment and intimidation." Both advocates and enemies agree that the Lambs are dead serious about their cause. As long as abortion in the U.S. is legal, they will be a determined force that pro-choice advocates need to reckon with...
...those who do not play by Santana's rules, life is even messier. Bars of prison cells constitute no protection. One foolhardy prisoner who steals drugs from the Mafia has to reckon with Santana's lieutenants. Using an aerosol can to douse the offender with kerosene, they light him on fire, burning him to death...
BEETHOVEN: THE LATE PIANO SONATAS, VOL. 1 (Dorian Recordings). Sonatas Nos. 28 and especially 29 (the "Hammerklavier") are immense in their emotional range and technical challenges. The contrapuntal writing is Olympian, the fugues exalted. Andrew Rangell possesses the intelligence and dexterity to reckon nobly with these humbling conceptions...
...Martins, 44, the production is a triumph, establishing him as the premier figure in American classical dance. He was already a power to reckon with as head of what is often described as the world's finest classical company. Running a ballet troupe is a tricky business. In addition to day-to- day operations, fund raising and the ceaseless development of talent, a director must have artistic impact on the world of the arts, or the troupe's name will lose its luster. Martins' Beauty cuts like a stiff breeze through increasingly remote traditions. No major company has managed such...