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Scenes of exquisite boredom at school, as the teachers drone on about such traditional crowd pleasers as the Smoot-Hawley tariff act. Scenes of exquisite calculation at home, as Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) fakes an illness that will spare his fine intelligence another assault by the proponents of useless information. Ferris is no ordinary truant. The point of his exercise is not to waste the day but to spend it wisely. Or wise-guyly. So he will spring his best girl (Mia Sara) from school. He will get his best friend (Alan Ruck, who is lovely as a boy struggling...
...Ferri was ready, leaving the Royals with a mere ''You only live once.'' In her first year at A.B.T., she has worked with typical speed and intelligence, learning six major roles, three of them in full-length ballets. Says the A.B.T.'s Tchernichova, with whom Ferri now studies: ''In Act I of Giselle she is like Anna Magnani when she goes mad. In Act II she is like a cloud.'' SYLVIE GUILLEM. Until she was eleven and fell in love with ''le spectacle,'' or the show-biz side of ballet, this lyrical athlete was a whiz-kid gymnast...
...falsely implicated me in a theft several years ago at the Ritz Hotel in Paris. In fact, my only involvement with that incident was to act as the victims' representative in obtaining the restitution of their property. It has been established that my financial assets enabled me to easily maintain my position and in no way was there any difficulty discharging my obligations. Your August 9, 1982 article has caused me embarrassment and extreme distress in body and mind where I live, and indeed, all over the world. Stefania von Kories zu Goetzen Paris, France In TIME's article about...
Your article on weeding out incompetent doctors (MEDICINE, May 26) makes the error of assuming that state medical boards can act autonomously in controlling dangerous physicians. The chain of effective discipline starts . with reporting the offense, followed by investigation and then the prosecution, none of which are in the hands of a medical board. A physician thought to be incompetent must be accorded full protection of the law and can be punished only after a fair hearing, to which can be added the right of appeal. This is as it should be, but it takes time. Rather than direct criticism...
...waged a $6 million promotion campaign called ''Go for it, America'' to win back U.S. travelers. That effort reached a climax of sorts last week when 5,791 American winners of a BA sweepstakes were given free flights to London. Even Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher got into the act when she invited 30 of the sweepstakes winners to join her at 10 Downing Street for tea. For its part, Pan Am is offering free car rentals and two-for-one ticket deals to help fill seats on its Europe-bound planes. The airline is heavily promoting its new ''Alert'' security...