Word: barbarae
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...Balanchine could be charming and funny, but some part of him remained unknowable, enigmatic. He seemed indifferent to money and accepted as little as $50 per performance in royalties when other troupes staged his works, recalls his onetime assistant Barbara Horgan, director of the George Balanchine Trust, which licenses performances by other companies. He formed intense bonds with his favored female dancers, making them his muses. He married four of them - Tamara Geva, Vera Zorina, Maria Tallchief and Tanaquil LeClercq - and had liaisons with others. Male or female, close or remote, most of his dancers revered their...
...inflict real damage on the Democratic contender before Americans get to know much about him. What's more, Bush has to answer those within his party who are increasingly questioning the agility and management of his campaign. Among them, two well-placed sources tell TIME, are Laura and Barbara Bush. "They are paying attention," says a Bush official. The President's mother, in particular, is worried that she has seen this movie before. Says the official: "She does not want to see her family go through a '92 thing again...
...turning to consumer-directed health plans, which transfer control--and much of the responsibility for paying--to workers. Features include cost sharing with employees, high deductibles, reimbursement accounts, preventive medicine and health savings accounts, which, like individual retirement accounts, allow workers to sock away money tax free. --By Barbara Kiviat...
...higher stroke risk was comparable to what researchers had seen for the estrogen-progestin combo. Even at that, the increase was rather slight--about 8 additional strokes per 10,000 women. "Women should not feel this is some grand emergency for them," says Dr. Barbara Alving, director...
...Ronni Blumenthal, the moment of family bliss came in Guatemala City as her mother Barbara wrapped 23-month-old Dov in a worn red woolen blanket that Ronni's great-grandmother had made. "My grandmother used to tell me," says Barbara, "'Go get the red blanket, and we'll cuddle.' So this blanket--and tradition--has been passed from generation to generation, and has special meaning...