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...festival. In a new work-Balanchine's aching five-minute lamentation, Élégy-as well as the great older pieces, she danced with the daring thrust and exquisite musicality that make her perhaps the finest ballerina in the country now. Or it could have been a Heather Watts festival, for this sexy, all-grit dancer seemed to be onstage and in command every night...
...experienced attending "home births," by the pleasures of her own pregnancy and motherhood and by her ardent commitment to feminism and women's health. Harrison, who is divorced, searched for a part-time residency that would permit her to care for her five-year-old daughter Heather. She landed such a position at Boston's renowned Beth Israel Hospital, but soon found herself working "60 hours a week in a world in which I do not believe in what I am doing and have grave doubts about what I am inflicting on other human beings...
Instead, the sheep dogs are pent up and yelp like continuous gunfire at the expanded human traffic; the hillsides are punctured with slit trenches; the sea birds are watching the boats slice through the kelp; helicopters panic the ducks; mines are planted far out near the gorse and heather. This is what war does to a landscape. The place that was a few weeks ago a vast serenity with marvelously fresh air is now "a major bridgehead," home to Scorpion light tanks and Rapier surface-to-air missiles and all the other accouterments of the most advanced mayhem...
...forlorn or malevolent spirits residing inside the Poltergeist house, each child is differently attuned. The teen-age girl is too involved with growing up to take much notice; the boy, Robbie (Oliver Robins), can be reached only on the frequency of fear; but the five-year-old, Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), is unaware and unafraid of the spirits' terrible power-and is theirs for the taking. It is she who releases the poltergeists (literally, noisy ghosts) from their long bondage between this world and the next. Drawn to the blankly fuzzy, humming screen of the living-room...
...stifled a sob. Lou looked up from a bottle of Top o' the Heather long enough to mutter, "There goes Mary Waterworks again." Sue Ann nibbled on a quiche...