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...Gilles. "My legs are paralyzed," he declares in his first letter, "but my heart is free and I know how to love." And so Louise determines to create another life, a love life, for her brother: she writes to him, as "Beatrice Deschamps," and Gilles becomes her maimed, ardent Vergil. The question is whether she will lead him to paradise or purgatory...
...destroy the nuclear facilities of its Arab antagonists, like Iraq. The prophetic California Republican is also one of the few members of Congress-another is Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland-who openly raises an uncomfortable question: Is American policy in the Middle East being unduly influenced by the ardent lobby of Israel's supporters...
...more important, the actions the new Socialist government undertook in the month preceding the elections served to reassure and please many voters. By naming a moderate cabinet including highly touted finance minister Jacques Delors and anti-Communist Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy, Mitterand demonstrated that he is far from the ardent revolutionary his opponents portrayed him to be. And by raising the minimum wage 10 per cent, opening discussions on the 35-hour week and making loans more readily available to small-and medium-size firms. Mitterand proved he keeps his promises...
...double side of life. The choreographer also notes the rippling serenity of Kyra Nichols, who sometimes seems unaware of the audience. Most of all, Robbins shows off Ib Andersen. Since he has four new roles, this might even be called an Ib Andersen Festival. He is an elegant, ardent dramatic dancer who has the clear allegro technique that the "Balanchine style" needs. If Robbins does not test him (as Balanchine does in Mozartiana), he makes Piano Pieces a study of the protean Andersen in motion...
...victims, as has been amply documented in the writings of survivors of Stalin's gigantic Gulag of prisons, camps and places of exile. A compelling example is Eugenia Ginzburg's description of solitary confinement in a maximum-security prison in Yaroslavl. A former schoolteacher and an ardent Communist, Ginzburg was arrested in 1937, like millions of other innocent citizens caught up in Stalin's Great Terror. Lying in a glacial underground punishment cell, where rats scuttled past her face, she asked herself...