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...line experience; dancing just does not go further . . . And though she advanced to the very limit of the ballet's style, she never toppled into distortion. Farrell's choreography in Chaconne is already a study in rococo excess. To exceed excess and still not distort: quite a feat...
Silverstein and Thompston were back in action though the diminutive third baseman reportedly played left field when gold faced purple that season. Krolick's won the Intermediate League title for the second year in a rew, accomplishing, the feat without a certain catcher, who had moved up to the Major League. Where he batted somewhere around 300 and even threw out a few runners trying to steal second base...
Such a hazy feeling of empathy will permeate tomorrow's Commencement activities. Aside from the feat of having recently completed academic requirements, it is just about the only thing that will produce a Class of '82 from a bunch of graduating seniors. No doubt, the feeling will resurface in the years to come, when one classmate or another finds himself a great celebrity. Chances are that this person, and others who will come to stand out, will never have spoken a personal word to the majority of those he went to college with. Yet, his classmates will feel a comradely...
...competing ones by liberals and one by the 18-member Black Caucus. In addition, floor rules will permit votes on 68 separate amendments. House Republican leaders produced a budget that looks very much like the Senate document but, somehow, projects $ 15 billion less spending. How did they accomplish that feat? An aide to Senate Republican chiefs had a simple answer: "They lie." Retorted an aide to the House G.O.R leaders: "Our numbers are no phonier than anyone else's." At this point, not one of the budget resolutions seems able to win the 218 House votes needed for passage...
...crisis had performed the almost miraculous feat of welding a historically divided and complex society into a united front. A local Gallup poll published in Buenos Aires last week indicated that 90% of those questioned believed that Argentina should use force if necessary to retain its sovereignty over the islands. Only 4% favored a settlement plan that included the withdrawal of the troops who have occupied the Falklands since the April 2 invasion...