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Hailed by New York magazine as "the next Bernstein" after his Metropolitan Opera debut last year, the soft-spoken, long-haired Nagano, 43, has so far managed to avoid the kind of premature hype that can capsize a career. Indeed, the onetime beach boy from Morro Bay, California, is still not widely known in the U.S., holding only the modest post of conductor of the Berkeley Symphony. "There's nothing wrong with wanting to be well known," says Nagano, "but that doesn't work for me. I just try to let my enthusiasm for what I'm doing guide...
Actually, the contemporary poet's situation isn't altogether grim. What it is is complicated, in ways that Moyers rarely plumbs. Poetry readings and workshops, as he triumphantly points out, are flourishing; poetry as a communal, spoken experience--something to be shared with other listeners--seems far more vibrant today than a couple of decades ago. On the other hand, the market for poetry on the page remains dismal, and many trade publishers have abandoned it altogether. (This has led to a surreal situation in which talented poets sometimes find themselves wishing for rejection; they can't even manage that...
Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione told TIME today that he has offered the Unabomber a regular column in the magazine. Guccione, who claims to have spoken briefly by telephone with the Unabomber four days ago, plans to announce the offer on the magazine'sInternet site. The Unabomber had said that if The New York Times, the Washington Post, TIME and other major news organizations refused to carry his 35,000-word manifesto, he would accept Guccione's offer to publish it in Penthouse. But in a bizarre turn as media critic, the Unabomber said in that case he would reserve...
During the next three years, orientation weekdetractors will shake their heads sadly, recallingall the cute Jennys and Kevins that they met thatweek so long ago and haven't spoken to since...
Perennial faces in the news include out-spoken Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the author of Chutzpah, who recently made headlines for his comment on "Good Morning America" in which he said that police officers are trained to lie on the witness stand. (That remark sparked a recent protest by more than 60 area police officers outside The Dersh's office in early June.) Ron Silver played Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune, a film based on Dersh's defense of Rhode Island aristocrat Claus von Bulow...