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...stories are hardly flawless, yet by making Sarah painfully honest, Lee ensures that her character's confusion is not reduced to an endless search for "identify." Sarah's identity cannot be formed by escaping to Paris, as she discovers in the first story/chapter. Each succeeding story is a small, significant part of herself, written in a way that seems to reflect Lee's own experience...
Ballerina Merrill Ashley has considerably more than a character to offer in her painstaking book. Today she is one of the glories of the New York City Ballet, a sunny allegro virtuoso. In his introduction, British Critic Clement Crisp likens her style to bravura pianism or flawless coloratura. As Ashley documents it, however, her career was not a prestissimo ascent. It took a decade of intense, disciplined practice to perfect her astounding technique and years onstage to learn how to present herself effectively. In the early pages, the author-dancer shows just how lost a youngster can be, even...
...world where rapid economic development is critical to the survival of the poorest, painstaking environmental concerns and flawless safeguards against disaster often seem like impossible or impractical luxuries. Lurching sometimes, stumbling at others, technology and its many implications move forward. "As a society," says Michael Brown, author of Laying Waste, a study of toxic chemicals in America, "we have to accept reasonable risks in order to reap reasonable benefits." Knowing the benefits is easy. The hard part is achieving acceptable odds on the risks. -By Natalie Angler. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Peter Stoler/New York, with other bureaus
...winter cruise ships in St. George's, the capital. At churches, schools and even discotheques, 85% of the island's 48,000 voters lined up for their first free elections since 1976. The balloting was described by an observer from the Organization of American States as "flawless." So, from the point of view of the Reagan Administration, was the outcome. Thirteen months after the U.S. invasion of their island, Grenadians decisively rejected the kind of political radicalism that prompted that intervention, and instead gave a resounding mandate for moderation...
Just as Miss Manners urges, the Martins have reared, educated and nagged at two children, who appear to have acquired flawless manners. "It's amazing how much a parent can terrify a child without actually doing anything," says Nicholas, 18, a freshman at Harvard. Jacobina, 13, plays the harp and studies at a private school in Washington. Once when Martin relayed a prying reporter's request to interview the whole family at home, Jacobina objected, "But mother, I wasn't brought up in that manner...