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...universality and diversity of dance is the theme of this ambitious but conceptually skewed eight-part series produced by New York City's WNET in cooperation with RM Arts and BBC-TV. Dancing has its pleasures, both small and large. In one charming vignette, a great-bellied guru beats time as he teaches a tiny girl some basic gestures of Indian classical dance. Much of a segment on stage performance compares Bando Tamasaburo, a Kabuki star who excels in female roles, with Larissa Lezhnina, a dazzling young ballerina of Russia's Kirov Ballet. In surprisingly complementary ways, their performances...
...consumer in the price of the finished goods -- a de facto sales tax. Bill Clinton, shying away, dubbed them a "radical" revenue-raising method in February. But faced with the expected multibillion-dollar annual cost of extending medical coverage to all Americans, Health Secretary Donna Shalala and budget guru Alice Rivlin both seemed intrigued by a VAT -- apparently in addition to health care-dedicated revenues to be derived from higher taxes on alcohol and tobacco...
Some of today's most influential religious figures are no longer theologians but therapists. For Evangelicals, the guru is Colorado's James Dobson, a child psychologist whose daily radio show, Focus on the Family, dispenses advice over 1,200 stations. Among mainline dropouts and seekers the star is Connecticut psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, who fused the psychological with the spiritual in The Road Less Traveled, a New York Times paperback best seller for a record 490 weeks. Peck was baptized a Christian in 1980 but sees no reason to join a church; his latest book, A World Waiting...
Sylvain, the guru of Bob the Chef's Soul Supreme Restaurant in South Boston, was the first visiting chef to come in a Harvard Dining Services program designed to bring culinary luminaries to the dining halls. He specializes in spicy Southern cuisine with catchy names like "glorified chicken" and "candid yams...
...England Journal of Medicine, but it struck a nerve. Viewers tuned in to hear David Reynard, the Florida widower, tell the story of his wife's death to Larry King, Bryant Gumbel, Faith Daniels and dozens of radio talk-show hosts. Sally Atwater, the widow of late Republican political guru Lee Atwater, got half a dozen calls from reporters asking whether her husband's brain tumor was linked to his constant cellular-phone use (she could not say). "It seems like yet another technology that is out to get us," said NBC's chief White House correspondent, Andrea Mitchell...