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Bruce Springsteen, the man with no gimmicks, only talent and sincerity. Lew Rodner Owings Mills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...talent would have been in the blood; it could not have been learned. Welch's schooling was so desultory that at the age of nine he was still unable to read. When he was 20, better educated but still without focus, he was struck by a car as he cycled along an English country road. From then on he lived with increasing pain until spinal injuries and heart failure killed him 13 years later. But in that period he summoned up his childhood and adolescence and transformed them into art. His tales were produced with a combination of will, eidetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Rare Being, a Born Writer: DENTON WELCH | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...sense of surprise with the comfortable recollection of the familiar. Rosenzweig and her partner Ken Aretsky opened this snug, intimate restaurant with its bosky seasonal mural just a year ago, and it soon had a two- to four-week waiting list for peak-hour reservations. She has a special talent for lamb and duck dishes. Other outstanding offerings include corn cakes with caviar and crème fraîche, chimney-smoked lobster, quail with beet sauce, warm apple timbale with caramel sauce and chocolate bread pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most Of '85: Goodbye to Gumbo and All That | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...shot through with the author's quirky preferences and prejudices. He finds that Director Joseph Mankiewicz often "knows more than we do and he's not going to tell us, and I don't like being talked down to." Yet he has enormous enthusiasm for Joan Crawford's "great talent." Appropriately enough, it is these quirky standards that make all 43 testimonies alternately entertaining, poignant and, in the end, indispensable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PEOPLE WILL TALK | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Public Son of a Public Man: "When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes,/ I was your son, high on your horse,/ My mind a top whipped by the lashes/ Of your rhetoric, windy of course." Auden cut a more attractive father figure, an artist of superior talent and technique who stalks the pages of the journal as a steady reminder of his friend's shortcomings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Confessions of a Public Son, JOURNALS: 1939-1983 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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