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This week we are taking Luce's and Hadden's notion one step further. The magazine is introducing a section called Profile, its seventh new department this decade and the first addition since Ethics appeared last January. Profile will consist of a telling, vivid word portrait of one or another of the world's most noteworthy people -- some of whom will figure in the week's news events, all of whom will be interesting. Says Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who will supervise the section: "There was a time when this magazine featured 52 faces on its cover in the course...
Bolstered by a surreptitious 1984 recording of the Chopin Opus 28 Preludes, Feltsman's reputation grew even while he was in musical exile. In the gossipy world of concert music, word of prodigiously gifted Soviets zips along the grapevine allegro vivace; unheard Russians like Feltsman tend to loom large in the imagination of Western audiences eagerly seeking a new pianistic hero. Then reality sets in. For every Vladimir Ashkenazy, a brilliant pianist in both technique and taste, there have been disappointments like the vapid Youri Egorov and the clangorous Lazar Berman...
...daunting play, more because of its length (two hours and 45 minutes), its large cast of characters, its blank verse and its strange music, rather than its theme. Still, it is worth seeing for its acting. And it proves the old adage: You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word...
...mistake Federal Appeals Court Judge Anthony M. Kennedy for a liberal. Ronald Reagan's latest nominee to the Supreme Court appears to be a conservative in the truest sense of the word, conservative both in temperment and practice. Unlike either Robert Bork or Douglas Ginsburg, he seems to have few ideological axes to grind. If the words of colleagues of all persuasions can be trusted, Kennedy is a most judicious judge, one whose written opinions demonstrate a painstaking commitment to weighing the facts of a given case in light of applicable law and not to remaking the judiciary and society...
...BIDEN, (D-DE) and Committee Chairman: Let the word go forth, to friend and foe alike, that this session is now called to order. Judge Reinhold, do you have a statement...