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Experts generally agree that a healthy economic recovery is what the airlines now need most. That makes signals like January's drop in the unemployment rate to 10.4% from December's 10.8% particularly encouraging. But far more evidence of a rebound will be needed before airline executives dare to think of breaking out the bubbly. Sighs William Berry, public relations manager for Delta Air Lines, which lost $85.6 million in 1982: "If the economy would make only a modest turnaround, this industry would do just fine...
...Rolling Stones after two decades of great music, Jagger seems to be pointing toward a new life in film. Let's Spend the Night Together, Director Hal Ashby's portrait of the Stones' 1981 U.S. tour, will be released next month. But hold. Dare Jagger really leave rock forever? In The Nightingale, the Emperor recovers from an illness only when his original songbird is brought back to sing...
...every concert," Rubinstein once said, "I leave a lot to the moment. I want to risk, I want to dare. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different." But some things were consistent. His Chopin-and he was peerless in Chopin-was strong-willed and large-boned, robust and masculine, yet sensitive and poetic. His Brahms was as hearty, bluff and ruminative as the composer himself. Rubinstein played Spanish music with the brio of a native (Spain was one of his favorite countries), and Impressionist music like a born...
...movie's best scene occurs when Nolte and Murphy go into a country boy bar, full of rednecks in cowboy hats. "These are my kind of people," chuckles Nolte, "they sure as hell don't like you." Murphy takes the remark as a dare, and after borrowing Nolte's badge, breaks the big mirror behind the bartender. The room falls quiet. "Alright now, listen up!" yells Murphy. "I don't like white people...
Security men swept Walesa up the stairs to his waiting wife Danuta. She quickly dispatched them with a bottle of vodka and the stern warning, "Don't you dare intern my husband again!" Then, before turning in for the night, Walesa pulled aside the living room draperies and flashed a defiant V-for-victory sign to cheering supporters. It was a scene both comic and joyful, but devoid of triumph. Walesa's independent union Solidarity, which was formally banned by the government on Oct. 8, lies in ruins...