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...Bissell, 23, were dismissed from the company, one day before the season's opener at Washington's Kennedy Center. The official reason: "gross breach of contract." The two had failed to appear for a dress rehearsal, explained Executive Director Herman Krawitz, and had been "chronically late-and absent-for rehearsals [for] 13 weeks." Friends of the brilliant but erratic Kirkland speculated that she might be distracted by a romance with Bissell. Others said she had never recovered from the breakup of her 1974 affair with Baryshnikov, 31, or at the very least had deep "artistic differences" with...
...movies, it is usually the couple two rows back who turn out to be practitioners of voice-over chic, tenderly broadcasting all the half-baked thoughts they ever half-understood about Fellini. Dial a phone number and the absent owner's talking machine coughs a set piece of cuteness before granting a moment for you to interject a brief message. As for bridge players, the typical foursome hardly finishes the play of a hand before the air burbles with a redundant rehashing...
...make in the decade ahead. As the title suggests, prosperity requires much more than the recrudescence of an affluent industrial elite, but a rebirth of a political spirit of cooperation and determination. Muller's scope extends beyond domestic boundaries to the problems of the Third World--a topic conspicuously absent in the discussions of most corporate zealots. He places American stagnation in the context of a world-wide downturn afflicting both Western nations as well as those trying to industrialize for the first time...
...accused has already vanished. Conspicuously absent from last week's arraignment was George Osserman...
...other nineteenth century women, and her book offers insight into the psychosomatic ilnesses common to Victorian spinsters. Nevertheless, she never presents Alice as merely a passive victim of masculine oppression. Alice herself, as Strouse argues, recognized her own responsibility for her failures, and one of the few emotions absent from her writings is indulgent self-pity. Toward the end of her life, looking back over her years of illness, she ruefully berated herself for her failure to be different...