Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There have been several dance autobiographies recently, many of them extolling or punishing George Balanchine along the way, but none is as intelligent or funny or shrewd as this one. Taylor's insights on fellow artists -- Graham, Balanchine, Robert Rauschenberg -- are unusually trenchant and fresh. The book is blessedly free of the cleaned-up quality that such memoirs often have, which inevitably makes the childhood chapters the only interesting, trustworthy ones. Talk about warts and all! For readers who want to hear about pressures and strains on the professional dancer -- the drugs, the drink, the penury -- they are all here...
...favorite, Demons Begone, came home with a bloody nose and a heavy heart in an ambulance. A field horse, Avies Copy, finished third. The best or the most stubborn of them will reconnoiter next week at the Preakness. Then Belmont Specialist Woody Stephens should have someone fresh waiting for the last mile and a half. The season has started...
...addition to offering fresh technology, PC manufacturers are getting savvier at marketing their wares. Apple Chairman John Sculley, former president of Pepsi-Cola, has visited many Big Business cronies to tout the Macintosh. The result: Apple's sales to the commercial market have nearly doubled since 1984, and the Mac is seen as a tool for executives instead of just a plaything for students and hobbyists. As Sculley told TIME: "We had to reposition the whole company...
FINALLY, I came upon it. The world's best paying job, of course, is that of the televangelist. And who better to save the sagging TV evangelism industry from the latest round of corruption and scandals than a fresh Harvard graduate like myself...
...National Assembly is likely to endorse fresh approaches when it convenes in June. One of the first orders of business: electing replacements for the calcified Old Guard, including President Truong Chinh, 80, and Pham Van Dong, 81, who has served as Prime Minister since 1976. Conceded Dong after casting his ballot last week: "I have been in this post too long...