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...natural advantages. Take this past week. The President was making peace and photo ops in a Middle East desert, while the nominee was specifying how to ease the Social Security earnings test. The beauty of incumbency is that the President can sit back and wait. In the current political firmament, Dole proposes, Clinton disposes. And in so doing, Dole could even force Clinton to show something like consistency. The President the Dole campaign accuses of "talking right and governing left" could become the President who really does, finally, end welfare as we know it. The President also has the luxury...
...that action, too. NBC president Robert Wright, while announcing that he thinks parent company General Electric plans to stand pat, coyly valued his network at about $11 billion, adding, "We just got a lot more expensive." And of course everyone is watching Rupert Murdoch, the envy of the media firmament, who with a recent infusion of cash from MCI is continuing to march across the world, from Milan to Fiji. Can Barry Diller possibly sit it out much longer...
...circus tents and chorus girls. His unconventional and unsettling angles clutch the viewer in a graphic documentary style. A soundtrack of Bayou blues and French sailor songs as forgotten as the stage acts they accompany complements the screen action, and assures "Funny Bones" a place in the cult film firmament...
...ought to be known from coast-to-coast as the firmament of arts in New England...
Still young and fresh, Bussell has become fixed in the firmament. Paloma Herrera is well on her way. Born in Buenos Aires to a well-off family, when she came to the U.S. only four years ago to study at the School of American Ballet, she was distressed. Her training had been in the older, European style that called for careful poses. Says a teacher: "She was 15, dancing 35." Herrera changed her technique but not her dream of dancing just about everything-not only Mr. B. but the classics, Antony Tudor, Twyla Tharp as well. So she joined A.B.T...