Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cast--and dialogue--are international enough to put Cafe Pamplona to shame. Oleg Yankovsky plays a Russian poet named Gortchakov, who is in Italy to write a book about a 17th-century composer, Gortchakov is accompanied by an interpreter, Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano). Like Fellini, another comsummate stylist, Tarkovsky seems to have chosen his cast primarily for their visual qualities--particularly Giordano, who has the Surrealist-Madonna looks to complement the Surrealist-pastoral scenery forming the backbone of this film...
...major symphony orchestras. She is known as a champion of contem- Porary composers. But she said that she also likes to mix old and new music on the same program. "We're in an era where audiences are willing to listen to contemporary works and composers are willing to write for them," she said...
...frankness may startle," writes Haig, "and, at moments, it has been painful to write the truth." But, he adds, "I could not do otherwise." In the final excerpt from his memoir, Haig recounts: ∎Concerns that Poland would explode in violence. ∎"My Waterloo"-his venture at shuttle diplomacy in the Falklands crisis. ∎Israel's invasion of Lebanon. ∎How he lost his battle to win Ronald Reagan's support...
...always dangerous to second-guess IBM, and nobody is about to write off the PCjr. IBM has just begun to roll out the Peanut's estimated $40 million advertising and promotion budget, and it may yet correct some of the machine's deficiencies. Says Bill Wallace, co-president of the Dallas-based Compco computer-store chain: "IBM will do whatever fine tuning it has to do to make its product viable." In fact, says Ulric Weil, a computer analyst at Morgan Stanley, IBM could sell as many as half a million PCjrs by year...
...advice, no offer of help, no word of encouragement came to me from Reagan or his staff. When the hearings were over and it seemed that I had come through them all right, the President-elect did not congratulate me, nor did any of his people phone or write. Because Reagan is so instinctively kind and courteous, this surprised me. But each President has his own style, and in fairness there is no reason why I should have been praised for getting myself confirmed. That was the least I owed to my chief, who had risked much in nominating...