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...interest groups), reduce the availability of imported goods, increase unemployment, and in general create social, economic and political tensions of the kind that preceded and indeed contributed to the revolution in Iran. Such tensions not only threaten the domestic stability of these countries, creating conditions for upheavals that could interrupt oil supplies, but could even turn one oil exporting country against another, as has been the case in the Iran-Iraq war. At the very least, sharply falling oil revenues today and in the next few years breed powerful incentives for OPEC, even without another disruption, to increase oil prices...
Throughout the dance six male clowns, dressed in white tutus, imitate a corps de ballet of Swan Lake and inelegantly entertain and interrupt Fontessa. Ragtime and The Man with amusing burlesques. The piece's success rides more on its dramatic and humorous aspects than inherent strengths in the dance. Towards the end Fontessa enters the stage in a sequined silver bikint to the song "If my friends could see me now." At one point one almost expects Ragtime to open his mouth and begin talking--certainly a radical departure from any traditional dance form...
Whitla noted that further evidence shows male students tend to interrupt female professors more than they interrupt male professors. On the other side of the desk, women teachers apparently are more hesitant to assume control of the class...
...hardly returned to him in full, but he has made a promising start. This week Walton will interrupt his law classes, and he appears ready to return full time to his sport. Clippers Coach Paul Silas insisted, frankly. At first Silas was convinced that "Walton once a week was better than no Walton at all," but he has reconsidered. "In any group situation, you can't make exceptions forever," Silas said. The first eight games Walton dropped in on all were lost, but against Portland two weeks ago he gathered 25 points, eight rebounds, seven blocked shots...
...home town. When Wolfgang Wagner, grandson of Richard, was seeking a conductor for last summer's centennial production of Parsifal at Bayreuth, Levine was his choice. "Jimmy's star is going up," says a member of the Chicago Symphony. "I don't think anything will interrupt the rise." Levine talks about his ascent to prominence with a characteristic mixture of pride and hyperbole. "Every year my life gets better," he says. "It's all sort of like a dream. It's so nice...