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After Time Inc. obtained the tapes, they were translated and edited into two separate volumes of memoirs by TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, a student of Russian literature and former Rhodes Scholar. The first volume, Khrushchev Remembers, was published in 1970. The second, based on tapes that were dictated for the most part between the time the first volume appeared and Khrushchev's death in 1971, will be called Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Excerpts from it will appear in TIME before its publication in June by Little, Brown & Co. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schechter, our Moscow bureau chief...
...Midler hit the stage like a cartoon of a cyclone. "She's here," she assured her audience. "The divine Miss M is here." Actually, she was here, there and all over the stage at once - leaping, squatting, strutting, eyes popping, cakewalking at treble speed, as if she were strobe-lit from the inside. Midler has, as the French say, a world on her balcony, and it threatened to topple right out of her purple satin slip as she flounced across the stage to snipe at a mix-up by her band with dime store hauteur: "This act is shabbay...
Arbus's photographs are extremely horrifying and disturbing in their precise attention to detail and the use of strobe flash to delineate textures. Images of a drooling, grimacing baby singe themselves into your retina. A lady's face--swathed in layers of chiffon scarves, wrapped by a gauze turban and netted veil, huge drops of shiny pearls hanging from her ears, and a fluffy fur stole across her chest--peers out over a double chin somehow eerily disembodied...
...blinding strobe lights flashed Alice strutted around the stage like Tiny Tim impersonating the Marquis de Sade. He stabbed a life-sized doll that drew a loud roar of approval. Then Alice allowed his pet boa constrictor to slither down his body and protrude its head between his legs. More roars...
...hotel's cafe and up to 500 zloties for entry into the hotel itself. For "systematically demanding bribes," the defendants face maximum sentences of 10 years in prison. Meanwhile, life goes on at Warsaw's leading hotels. At the Bristol last week, TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott reports, he was propositioned three times by phone from the lobby before he had time to unpack in his room...