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...After a career??of giving away appliances, The Price Is Right host and spaying-and-neutering advocate Bob Barker, 82, is hanging up his microphone next June...
With a 37-year career??in the aluminum industry, handling coups and monetary crises, Richard Evans, 59, is no stranger to challenges. After four months as CEO of Montreal-based Alcan--the world's No. 2 aluminum producer and the market leader in such products as balsa wood and Stelvin wine caps--the record-making fly fisherman spoke with TIME's COCO MASTERS about energy efficiency, China and his Audi...
What is remarkable about Meryl Streep's brief film career???Sarah is her first really big role?is that she has brought this same feeling of inevitability even to relatively minor parts. In The Deer Hunter she had only a few important scenes, but it requires a wrenching effort now to imagine another actress playing Linda, Christopher Walken's shy girlfriend. Casual television viewers, who cared not at all that she had made her reputation as a stage actress at the Yale School of Drama and at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York City, were struck...
...broke his truce between surrealism and abstraction. Preoccupied with "tragic and timeless" subject matter, Rothko wanted to invest the entire surface of the painting with a sense of awe, a ritualistic presence; and in groping toward this he produced some of the least satisfactory paintings of his career???vague, disconnected blots and blurs, pretty as begonias, but otherwise unremarkable. But gradually the patches coalesced, the structure firmed. His breakthrough came in 1949, with a painting named Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red, which created the formula he would explore (with variations) for the last 20 years...
Calley volunteered for extra duty in Viet Nam after his regular one-year tour was over. He came back with a Bronze Star with cluster and a Purple Heart, and thought seriously of making the Army a career???"until this happened." Bearing a charm bracelet for his youngest sister, a ham for his father and a couple of bottles of liquor for his buddies, Calley returned home on leave from Viet Nam last Christmas.This was nine months after My Lai. Tony Massero, a high school friend, says: "He didn't seem like he was nervous or in some sort...