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...last week, directed Dirty Dancing as well as several parts of the PBS Dance in America series. He has shown that he can shoot his camera straight -- and in fairness it should be pointed out that at least he does not cut off the dancers' feet, a common Hollywood error. But in the long Kingdom of the Sweets sequence, the action is blurry. The Waltz of the Flowers, with its swift pace and swirling, swooping movements, almost falls apart. The choreographic patterns are unreadable, and even Nichols' brilliant dancing loses some of its definition...
...guarantee food, then you guarantee health and education," says Octavio. "Their priorities are backward. They spend on sports! You can't eat sports." Yet this son of a family that was well off before the revolution is not keen about the capitalist changes. "I think it's an error to give purchasing power to the dollar," he says. "My family lost financially from the revolution, but we gained spiritually, we gained morally...
...year to toughen the embargo by barring foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies from trading with the island embitters and puzzles many. "You deal with China, Syria, why not Fidel Castro?" asks Sanchez. "The view in Miami, believed in Washington, that he is going to go away is a huge error. If Washington had a truly pragmatic vision, it would renounce its anti-Castro policy and help us reform...
...three hundred years after the close of the trials, the excesses the "possessed" spawned appall us. One wonders how people could be convicted to death on such slim evidence, and one feels grateful that our modern legal system is not so vulnerable to gross error. But in fact, some seem to say, the injustices of Salem are not so remote; the people now accusing childhood authority figures of sexual abuse based on previously repressed memories are perhaps as deceived as the possessed children of Salem were. Their imaginations, too, might be out of control...
...print someone's name, or even to print certain specific details, in a sensitive story. Our editors and reporters debate the merits of running the name against the merits of respecting the individual's privacy. We often err on the side of privacy. Sometimes, it is indeed an error. Usually, though, I think we're right...