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Bryant Pond is one of those tiny Maine towns that come upon the traveler as suddenly as a streak of summer lightning. There you are, tooling north on Route 26, dazzled by an occasional stand of white birch, sniffing the pinelike incense, just about convinced that this is God's country the way the glaciers carved it out 12,000 years ago. Then the road descends and a white Baptist church materializes on the left, as if designed for Our Town. At the bottom...
...instrument to accomplish physical feats." Deb bie Allen, who plays a dance teacher and serves as choreographer on the NBC-TV series Fame, sees dancing as "a precision art. Doing the things your body might not want to do keeps your mind alert and elevated." And, as Choreographer Patricia Birch (Grease) notes, "other people are admiring dancers' bodies to the point of emulating them. Muscles have become the status symbol of fitness...
Officially, the ceremony marked the anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw uprising, in which 245,000 Poles died trying to drive the Nazi occupiers out of their capital. But the Poles who filed through the neat, birch-lined paths of Warsaw's Powazki Cemetery last week also had a message for their present rulers. Gathered at the base of a ten-foot-high monument to the Home Army, the non-Communist resistance group that organized the 1944 revolt, about 1,000 supporters of the suspended Solidarity union sang hymns, raised their hands in V-for-victory signs and called...
...contrast, the opposition-the Eagle Forum, Fundamentalist Christian churches, the Moral Majority, the John Birch Society, the Mormon Church, the American Farm Bureau-was well financed and smoothly organized almost from the start. While ERA supporters staged national demonstrations, foes visited state legislators to argue that women are already protected by the 14th Amendment, which offers equal protection to "all persons." They quickly co-opted the fight and mired it down in dire warnings of homosexual marriages and unisex toilets. ERA supporters dismissed the scare talk as irrelevant. But, says Emory University Political Scientist Eleanor Main, "we should have presented...
...reveal his true identity to her until the concluding production number, although the audience is in on the secret all along. Pfeiffer is pretty and has a cer tain spirit about her, but the vacant Caulfield is surely the least promising newcomer since Pia Zadora. The director is Patricia Birch, who choreographed both the Broadway show and the first film. She cuts too much too fast, works too nervously in the musical staging, and veers from the peculiar to the pedestrian in the straight scenes. There is no security in her vision, but then, the whole movie seems...