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...willing to swing"), announcing that he would make Malcolm X Attorney General. None of this prankishness or social acceptance blunted the edge of his music: he initiated, almost singlehandedly, what's now called Afro-Cuban jazz, and as late as last year was still on the road, chops intact, wringing every note he could out of life...
...made his final appearance on the stage of the Palais Garnier, home of the Paris Opera Ballet, after a performance of his staging of La Bayadere. He needed dancers' support to stay upright. He was gaunt and emaciated, but the style was defiantly intact -- he was swathed in a huge gold-and-scarlet cape -- and so was the fiery heroism...
...Antarctic ice halfway around the world to be showcased at Expo '92 in Seville? Hauling it back again. The Chileans are doing just that, thanks to environmentalists who railed against desecrating the frozen continent. Never mind that the theft left approximately 100 quadrillion tons of the stuff still intact; the ice is now in Valparaiso, soon to head south in an insulated container. Antarctica will be whole -- and the atmosphere will have to absorb an extra load of pollution, the by-product of fuel burned in shipping the berg back home...
...Hampshire and for most of the remaining primaries. But by late spring Clinton was pretending he had never seriously proposed the tax cut, and he knew the plan could not survive the close scrutiny it was beginning to receive. It had accurately signaled Clinton's priorities -- which remain basically intact -- but there was little supporting data. Experts like Representative Leon Panetta and Alice Rivlin (whom Clinton has tapped for the two top slots at his budget office) derided the plan as unsound, and Ross Perot ridiculed Clinton for a "a bunch of junk numbers that don't compute." Perot...
...patients who were soon to be dead, looking to salvage whatever he could. The execution of condemned murderers seemed an extravagant waste, since controversial drugs and surgical techniques could be tested on criminal volunteers. The prisoner's brain provided a unique opportunity to study a criminal mind -- "an intact, living" brain, he emphasized. Further, from each prisoner might be harvested enough organs to save half a dozen lives. He has proposed an auction market in which rich people would bid for organs, and the money could be used to provide them to the poor for free...