Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Abe Stolar left with his parents for the Soviet Union in 1931, his native West Side Chicago neighborhood babbled with Yiddish and Polish. Now Spanish fills the air around Humboldt Park, Murray F. Tuley High School has become Jose De Diego Academy, and the place where Stolar's home once stood is a vacant lot. But to Stolar, 77, back last week after 58 years in the U.S.S.R., it felt familiar. "It's wonderful," he said. "I feel 60 years younger...
...using an array of design and construction tricks to camouflage body flaws. Higher necklines and underwire bras help disguise a large bust; ruffles and other upper-body froufrous distract from a small one. Lower-cut legs and flirty little skirts divert attention from big hips and thighs, while high waistlines, belts and stomach-control panels are doing their bit to hide the belly...
...whole project sinks under debt and futility? How will he manage his passionate connection with Elsie while maintaining his marriage and giving no pain to his patient, long-suffering wife? Answers eventually arrive, but not before some spirited narrative interludes: vivid scenes of hunting and "sticking" swordfish on the high seas, a sexual encounter that turns into an extended bout of mud wrestling, a hair-raising attempt to outsail a major hurricane...
Seen during the Canadian part of the current tour, Scotch Symphony, Balanchine's musings on La Sylphide, worked best with Yelena Pankova, 25, as the sylph. A springy dancer blessed with a high, light jump, she seemed to grasp the choreographer's oft repeated injunction: respond to the music and "don't think -- do" the steps. Senior ballerina Galina Mezentseva tried to make a romantic story out of this plotless work and as a result looked...
...have merely raised more questions. For example, How exactly do electromagnetic fields produce the alterations in cells? Are the changes temporary or permanent? Do they reflect normal adjustment or a harmful effect? Equally mystifying is what kind of exposure might constitute a danger. Is five minutes in a high-intensity field worse than 24 hours in a weak field? Says Imre Gyuk, manager of the electromagnetic program at the Department of Energy: "We don't at present have a scientific basis for regulatory action...