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That leaves the "international magnate" solution. Pravda employees speculate that Frolov was referring to British publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, who has visited Gorbachev twice this year, as a potential backer. A day after Frolov's announcement, the youth daily Komsomolskaya Pravda charged that Maxwell had recently pulled out of a joint venture with the independent Moscow News and closed the paper's London edition without warning. Even if a white knight comes to Frolov's rescue, it is hard to see how the beleaguered editor can effectively implement all the much needed changes...
...Evgeni Kissin, who just turned 19, grows up. Big, powerful hands crash down on the keyboard with the assurance of a performer three times his age. His tone is full-blooded yet lyrical, a mature sound that most fine pianists need years to achieve. Only his interpretations betray his youth, but that is precisely what is right about them. Dashing, impetuous and seemingly spontaneous, Kissin's playing is a reminder that classical music is supposed to be fun for both performer and listener...
Communist spokesmen said their party headquarters had indeed sent two payments totaling $63 million to Moscow in September, before German unification took place. The money, they said, was for support of communist students and upkeep on a youth training center in the Soviet capital...
...past greats as Armstrong and Henry ("Red") Allen in mastery of the instrument. "But he doesn't yet have as much creativity blues-wise and dirt- and funk-wise as they had because he hasn't had to live it." Marsalis' main limitation -- one he shares with the entire youth brigade -- is the lack so far of a truly original creative voice. Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, 73, puts it succinctly: "You don't see no Charlie Parkers coming along...
...book's hero is Don Rigoberto, a well-to-do widower in Lima who has recently married Dona Lucrecia: "In his youth he had been a fervent militant in Catholic Action and dreamed of changing the world." The grownup Rigoberto has set his sights on a different goal: the pursuit of moments of transcendent personal pleasure. These he seeks in his nightly sessions in the bathroom, where, according to a strict schedule ("The Wednesday Ear Ritual"), he cleans and maintains a different portion of his anatomy; then he gallops toward the marriage bed for inventive trysts with the compliant Lucrecia...