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Regarding his position against the SAT Donahue recalled that in elementary school he was a bluebird--a slow reader--not an eagle and that he would never have scored well on standardized tests...
...destroys protections for working people." When Reagan insisted last week that some Government indicators hinted that economic recovery was not far off, Kirkland retorted that the Administration was "whistling through the graveyard." The union boss claimed that "if you draw optimism out of that, you are just a blooming bluebird...
...backs of their cars and lug them over to the lawn that faces the bandstand. Encouraging smells begin to drift from the beef barbecue pit. The day's first Frisbee frizzes across the gray sky. Warmup musicians, two men and a woman of a group called Bluebird, plug in their guitars. Here in Rutland, the Grand Old-Time Fiddlin' Contest is gathering momentum...
George de la Pena, 22. Soloist, American Ballet Theater. The slight (5 ft. 9 in., 140 lbs.) De la Pena's long suit is a powerful sense of theater. At A.B.T. he has danced such roles as the Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty, a sailor in Fancy Free and the Nutcracker prince. A high point came last year when he played the old dollmaker in Coppélia. A curtain-time substitute, he gave a dark, almost mystical performance that New York balletomanes still prize...
...Burkhardt is a wonderfully pert ingenue, an island of sanity at sea. Kevin Usher as the gangster Moonface gives a performance that Bert Lahr would have loved, full of snarls that melt into whimpers, and with a deadpan that borders on hysteria. During his amusing solo, "Be Like the Bluebird," his playful vocal tricks give way to a voice as soaring as any in the cast. Phoebe Green's moll Bonnie, suggests the roll of the ocean all by herself, like a slightly underfilled waterbed: push on the thrust-out derriere and the chest doubles in size. This kind...