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...much as anything," Ditka says, "made people think, 'Hey, these guys are having fun.' It was kind of flukish, the way it happened." If the Perry thing gave a sort of melancholy life to that smoky old carnival bark, "Monsters of the Midway," the Perry person made the mood of the sideshow bright. "Everything has been a thrill to me," whistles this cheerful man through his ventilated smile. "The whole season. It's funny to see me doing TV commercials. My wife and I sometimes look over at each other and just laugh. One day somebody...
...fourth year of sustained growth, the industrialized countries are showing a capacity for cooperation unmatched in recent years. Looking ahead to the three-day conclave in Tokyo's imposing Akasaka Palace, the imperial guesthouse, officials from all participating countries caution that ugly problems could still dampen the summit mood. Among other things, the leaders will be preoccupied with their differing responses to international terrorism in the wake of the U.S. attack on Libya. Nonetheless, a French official predicted that "overall, it could be an exceptionally optimistic and harmonious meeting...
...airport Hyatt Hotel in Oakland, the crowd's mood is akin to that of an audience waiting for the big fight scene in a Rocky movie. More than 400 people are squirming excitedly on their folding chairs as adrenaline-pumping music blares from four giant speakers. Suddenly the room breaks into applause as a handsome man in a well-tailored suit jogs down the center aisle. The star of this show, however, is not Sylvester Stallone but an Italian Stallion of another breed: Dave Del Dotto, 35, a self-made real estate millionaire. "How many people want to get rich...
...program of Scarlatti, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Schubert, Liszt and Chopin, Critic Dmitri Bashkirov wrote in Sovietskaya Rossiya, "He indisputably remained the brightest bearer of the Russian performing tradition. I think there was not one person in the hall who didn't leave the concert in a happy, elevated mood." After watching on TV back in the U.S., Violinist Isaac Stern reached Horowitz by phone to say he had had tears in his eyes throughout the concert. Horowitz had once more proclaimed himself the greatest of living pianists. By turns elegant, playful, probing, introspective and, finally, heroic, Horowitz had also reaffirmed...
...Horowitz taught some half a dozen students between 1944 and the early '60s. It was not always a happy experience for the students. Horowitz would sometimes cancel lessons without warning if he was not in the mood. "It had its negative aspects," says Alexander Fiorillo, a professor of piano at Temple University who studied with Horowitz between 1960 and 1962. "He is callous to people's emotions and their feelings. I almost had a nervous breakdown." Yet Coleman Blumfield, whose lessons came to a summary end in 1958 for reasons he never completely understood, declares, "It was a privilege...