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While Turner backed away last week from any formal ties with the group, he pledged "to improve the quality, objectivity and diversity of CBS programming." In the past, Turner has criticized network fare in general for its "sleaze, stupidity and violence." His flagship station, WTBS, currently offers sports broadcasts and family-oriented material, including reruns of The Beverly Hillbillies, a show that CBS dropped...
...smashed him to the ground. At Steele's count of "nine," Hearns was approximately erect, but the referee had a grace of sense. As Hagler was hoisted on a number of shoulders, Hearns was carried across the ring like a bride across the threshold by one grim man in formal dress with a boutonniere in his lapel. It was a relief to see Hearns walking even unsteadily later, though he bore scarcely a recognizable resemblance to the person who had entered the ring. His grin was continuous and worrisomely inappropriate--wider than chagrin--and his speech was more deliberate than...
...dancers move through their roles in a slightly gingerly fashion, but they will loosen up. It may be that Roses is a little too idealized and courtly. In mood it has links to both Arden Court (1981), a brimming, buoyant, rather randy celebration, and the earlier Aureole (1962), a formal, pristine "white" ballet danced to Handel. In all these works, Taylor is like a benign god, bemused and profligate with his gifts: roles that buff his stage creatures to a high polish and provide audiences with airy, expansive images to contemplate...
...powers of the presidency while Reagan was under anesthesia. Saturday evening, after Reagan was once again alert, he signed a second letter that was delivered to Congress affirming his intention to resume his duties. This informal, rather nebulous process carried out by the White House closely paralleled the formal constitutional procedure. "It may not be a formal invocation of the 25th Amendment," said former White House Communications Director David Gergen, "but if it's not, it's a close country cousin...
...resorting to the Bethesda letter, Reagan and his staff were trying to have it both ways. The White House was dissatisfied with the formal nature of the 25th Amendment but was following the constitutional procedures. Fielding and Meese tried to frame the letter so that Reagan's delegation of power would appear as a single, isolated act based on a unique set of circumstances. But Reagan's situation is not unique, and the letter does set a precedent in practical, if not legal terms. New York University Law Professor Bernard Schwartz says that the problem of presidential illnesses...