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College life, by contrast, provides ceaseless personal contact: passion, pathos, strange and marvelous personal stories. Wong explains her network of friends by her willingness to listen to people's inner dramas. "People really are like onions, with wonderful layers," she says...
...premier figure in American classical dance. He was already a power to reckon with as head of what is often described as the world's finest classical company. Running a ballet troupe is a tricky business. In addition to day-to- day operations, fund raising and the ceaseless development of talent, a director must have artistic impact on the world of the arts, or the troupe's name will lose its luster. Martins' Beauty cuts like a stiff breeze through increasingly remote traditions. No major company has managed such a rigorous rethinking of a full-length work in more than...
...most hopelessly addicted political junkies -- and even a few of them -- welcome the respite from the ceaseless campaigns of the past. "I'm glad of it," swears Democratic Chairman Ron Brown. "The American public cannot take another three-year campaign." But the main reason for the Democrats' hesitation is not to give the electorate a break. Says election analyst Richard Scammon: "Bush is so high in the polls, '92 is so close, these people may have decided to pass...
...average Soviet citizen, one of the most galling aspects of the current political order is not that it is predicated on a bankrupt ideology but that it is so manifestly inegalitarian. In what is supposedly a classless society, life for the masses is a ceaseless hustle to acquire the most basic goods while for party bigwigs, the nomenklatura, it is relatively sweet, thanks to their access to all manner of worldly offerings. With resentments over these inequities rapidly growing as the economy deteriorates, Central Committee members last week reportedly did something that privileged elites rarely do: they voted to give...
Here, the disasters of war are at home. The Bronx veterans' hospital where Ron is sent to recuperate is an open sewer teeming with rats, drugs and whores. Back in Massapequa, Ron is now the flinching veteran used as a prop for patriotism, and family life is a ceaseless, sickening debate about the war. Even in Mexico, at a kind of seraglio for impotent veterans, he finds little sympathy among his own crippled kind. He looks into the angry face of his buddy Charlie (Willem Dafoe) and finds a mirror of his own grotesque despair. He has hit bottom...