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...You’re looking for someone who does everything—[who] brings together ballet, jazz, and gymnastics,” Garris says. “If you want to dance you might not choose Harvard because you won’t major in dance...
Each team’s performance must not be over two minutes and 15 seconds, and must incorporate a 30-second section of “pom”-style dancing, a 30-second jazz section, and a 30-second funk section. Pom is more precise, with straight-angled jumps and props, while the funk section incorporates hip hop moves and contemporary pop music...
...nurses. Looking surprisingly fit and fully at ease in blue slacks and an open-necked shirt, the President boarded a Marine helicopter with Nancy for the 15-minute flight to the White House lawn, where some 2,000 well-wishers awaited him. At the White House, the Marine jazz band serenaded the smiling couple as hundreds of gaily colored balloons were released. Reagan's high spirits were also reflected in his Saturday radio broadcast, taped at the hospital, in which he joked, "I don't have as much stomach" any more for the failure of Congress to slash federal spending...
DIED. FRANK CONROY, 69, who laid the groundwork for modern confessional memoirs with his acclaimed 1967 debut Stop-Time, an unsentimental chronicle of his painfully nomadic, picaresque childhood; of colon cancer; in Iowa City. The sometime jazz pianist mentored scores of young writers, many of whom became successful novelists, during 18 years as head of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the country's most prestigious creative-writing program...
...overall recorded-music market; but allowing for the fact that they are a fraction of a sliver, DVDs are gaining fast and showing great potential. "They've put a jump start in the aspect of the business that needed it," says Christopher Roberts, president of Universal Classics and Jazz International...