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...memorial has a force that even some of its critics have begun to acknowledge. It is a transcendent re-creation of the experience of the war itself. To walk down the declivity toward the apex of the walls, the walkway declining at what seems to be precisely the angle of escalation of the war, and to go deeper and deeper into the names of the dead, is to go back into the Viet Nam War. The force of so many names, the names a long incantation, listed in the order of their deaths, and the specificity of the names, each...
However, the real apex of the night was certainly his last scene to "Rocka My Soul in the Bostom of Abraham." The entire company creates a feverish excitement as the music builds on the picture of mesmerizing dancers. Yellow skirts fly and bodies sway to this extraordinarily contagious music. The entire company danced in this piece that displayed amazing talent as well as a genuines excitement...
Issues of substance lie on the table of presidential action. Ronald Reagan had a neat, three-sided diagram of the future in his first election: to reduce inflation, re-establish U.S. defense and balance the budget. But the triangle would not join, and through the gap in its apex, there ballooned a budget deficit of terrifying dimensions. His first stated order of business is to face that problem with sweeping tax revision. One of Reagan's greatest achievements in his first term was to bring into being a bipartisan commission that finally put Social Security on firm footing...
...particular evidence) as the oldest profession was not necessarily the most disagreeable one for a woman to adopt--provided she was able to adopt it at an economically high level. The King--Charles II followed by his brother James II, equally lecherous but more neurotic about it--constituted the apex of the social pyramid; it was a pyramid--which any audacious pretty woman might aspire to scale if she caught the monarch...
...million TV ad campaign, and hopes to sell 500,000 by Christmas. Orders are already tumbling in from K mart stores across the country. Tucked inside the packages will be catalogs featuring matching T shirts, bandannas, armbands, knee pads and silicon wax to make spinning easier. A Pennsylvania firm, Apex International, has introduced a six-piece break-dancing kit for $20 that includes a folding mat, padded gloves, a glossary of the lingo and a 30-minute cassette of instructions and music...