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Clothes hounds were not the only ones eyeing those size-4 designer dresses that NANCY REAGAN wore as First Lady. The Internal Revenue Service was studying them too. Shortly after President Reagan left office, the IRS undertook an audit of his taxes, prodded by former fashion executive Chris Blazakis, who was familiar with the value of Mrs. Reagan's extensive wardrobe. The former First Lady, who promised to stop accepting free designer goodies in 1982, told the tax officials that everything obtained after 1983 was purchased. The designers, however, said she did not pay them. Concluding that between...
Over the years, Lowerison, 57, has come to believe that her brother was captured and shipped to China. She reasons that he would have been valuable to Beijing because, she says, he told her that during the Vietnam War he undertook secret reconnaissance flights over China. Lowerison says when Air Force officials told her and her mother that Scharf's plane had gone down, they added a strange command. "We were told not to talk about him or give out his name to anyone," she recalls, "not even our neighbors...
Gustav Mahler was a peripheral figure until the early 1960s, when Leonard Bernstein combined his directorship of the New York Philharmonic with a CBS recording contract and his own magnetism to translate a deep personal identification into an enduring Mahler revival. In 1985 Bernstein undertook to re-record the nine symphonies, plus the Adagio from the unfinished 10th, live for Deutsche Grammophon, using three virtuoso orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Result: this definitive 13-disc boxed set. Bernstein finds the universal in Mahler's exquisite, often tortured, self-consciousness; the metaphysical beneath...
Just as demanding was the education he undertook to make his love affair with Ebaugh work the second time around. In counseling, the man about whom it is said that talking to him is like listening to a radio began to tame his mouth. "I started to listen, and not be judgmental, and wait until someone was through rather than interrupting them, and then think about what they said before I prepared an answer," he says. "I learned to give and take better than I had previously...
...setting for the fragmenting Soviet Union and other parts of Eastern Europe, the crisis was already seeping venom into the West. The main rubs: How could the E.C. enforce a peace, and what kind of peace did it want? With French support, German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher undertook to jump-start a rusting security mechanism, the Western European Union. Consisting of nine of the 12 E.C. members -- Denmark, Ireland and Greece do not belong -- the WEU was garaged soon after it was created 43 years ago, when U.S.-led NATO assumed its functions. But France sees...