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...sliced provocatively high along the thigh. "We're here to skate in a dress, not a G-string," huffed Manley's coach, Peter Dunfield. Witt met the commotion with calm. "We wear costumes that enhance the music," she said. "Why shouldn't we stress what is attractive?" But the flap seemed to give Witt and her coach second thoughts. In the short program, the costume appeared modified, with a heavier fringe of blue feathers along...
Melting in a warmth toastier than a chinook was a child-labor flap ignited by cross parents of the gala's youngest stars. In rehearsal, the youngsters worked up to twelve-hour days on short rations (sometimes just hot chocolate, a ham sandwich and a butter tart), although David Roberts, 12, reacted cheerfully: "Practice makes perfect. What I'll remember is the glory...
...second sequence from its prints because it feared a backlash from right-wing Japanese. Bertolucci accused Shochiku-Fuji of mutilating his masterpiece, an epic tale of modern China. Company Executive Shinji Serada phoned the Italian director to apologize, and promised to restore the missing clip. But the flap was certain to dismay the Chinese, who have often accused Japan of trying to avoid the blame for its militaristic past...
...flap began when the news magazine Der Spiegel published a story suggesting that early in his career Hofer wrote articles approving of Nazi policies, including the 1943 execution of Pianist Karlrobert Kreiten. Hofer had twice before publicly and successfully defended himself against similar accusations. But this time the network that produced his show asked him to leave. Hofer described the charges as "grotesque" and said he would take legal action against Der Spiegel...
...Reagan in dozens of not-so-private gatherings around town. Wright has called the President a "liar" and worse. White House aides, no strangers to bile, whispered again last week, "Jim Wright is a mean-spirited snake-oil salesman, and nobody wants to deal with him." On the Nicaraguan flap, Wright and Secretary of State George Shultz grandly staged their own truce negotiations, but that hardly dispels what one Congressman calls a "reservoir of bitterness" against the Speaker. Some of that is normal in the election season, but it seemed to go beyond all bounds last week when Georgia...