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...with her role as First Lady," says Barrett. "She is now somewhat more willing to acknowledge her influence on certain aspects of her husband's political and administrative affairs." As Associate Editor Kurt Andersen's cover story reports, Nancy Reagan's combination of stylishness and savvy, social poise and shrewd political instincts is creating a new model for the exercise of a First Lady's special influence...
...Communist country, the winds of change are blowing as strongly as ever. Like Mao Tse-tung before him, Deng, now 80, is trying to imprint his notion of what China should be upon the country before he dies. However, unlike Mao, an eternal revolutionary, Deng is a shrewd pragmatist whose economic reforms have proved popular, at least so far, among a people eager for Western-style prosperity. His policies, aimed at transforming a centrally planned economy into one that is more market-oriented, have not been greeted with approval by hard-liners among party and army officials, who suspect their...
Price has been a shrewd judge of her limitations as well as her talents. With few exceptions, she sang only parts suited to her voice and physique. She never sang those consumptive lost souls Mimi in La Boheme and Violetta in La Traviata, accurately observing, "I'm just too healthy for coughing spells." Although she toyed with the idea of tackling the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, she rightly realized that "Verdi is definitely my friend...
...buried him under a landslide. It was perfectly fitting that the roadside scene was turned into a television commercial--calling up patriotic spirits in the process of selling some beer. The new American mood was, if anything, eminently commercial. Whether one described it as enlightened self-interest or shrewd crassness, the old American talent for making a buck was alive and well. And after a hard passage through the deepest recession since the '30s, Americans were not cavalier about the gift...
...behind Ueberroth's controlled demeanor, Robert Ajemian, TIME's Washington bureau chief for seven years, spent an intensive week with Ueberroth, accompanying him to his baseball commissioner's office, to several dinners, even on a Ueberroth search for a New York City apartment. Says Ajemian: "He has a swift, shrewd mind that picks up subtleties of conversation, nuances of tone of voice. He is a remarkable observer...