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DOES HE DARE TO DRINK A TOAST? Novelist Valentin Rasputin strikes many as an odd choice to serve on Mikhail Gorbachev's new advisory presidential council. Rasputin's writings and speeches are often chauvinistically Russian and, according to some, anti-Semitic. But officials in Moscow think they have discovered the reason for Rasputin's elevated post. Raisa Gorbachev is a big fan of his books. A question now making the Kremlin rounds: Does every Czarina need her Rasputin...
...native corn bread, lobster, beef and raspberries. Gorbachev ate it all with gusto. Clean-plate man. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger eyed him across the State Dining Room and thought the Russian looked remarkably serene given his troubles back home. Other Soviet experts listened to Gorbachev's long toast of muted optimism, almost a plea for true friendship, and sensed that he was a little less confident than on his Washington visit in 1987. Showtime is over, and a political animal like Gorbachev has a hard time descending to the boiler room where the work must be done...
...worry. That peculiar odor you have been noticing in the morning is not burning toast. It is the smell of panic -- plump and juicy egos sizzling on a very hot griddle -- at NBC's Today show. Since the end of December, when Deborah Norville replaced Jane Pauley as co-host, ratings have not merely dropped; they have gone into free fall, a dizzying decline of nearly 25% that translates into approximately 920,000 lost households. The No. 1 morning program only five months ago, Today is now a distant No. 2, far behind ABC's Good Morning America...
With no bona fide contender to write about, Yepsen lobbed in a column two weeks ago on the virtues of neighboring Nebraska's telegenic Senator Robert Kerrey. In the great political quiet, the piece created a sonic boom. Kerrey, 46, an adequate Governor and untested Senator, is now the toast of political pundits and television interviewers. They dwell less on his vague achievements in government than on his travels, his Medal of Honor from Vietnam, his mastery of a restaurant business and the fact that he lured Hollywood's sexy superstar Debra Winger to his bachelor quarters in Lincoln. Those...
...Trump story has been a media circus: Barbara Walters raising her glass to toast Ivana. Only in this atmosphere does it seem unsurprising that a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (John O'Connor of New York) would publicly discuss the pastoral visit of one of the separating partners in a marriage. CARDINAL TO TRUMPS: PRAY, chimed Newsday on Page One. People who choose to share their private lives with gossip columnists and debate the terms of their divorce in newspapers get what they deserve...