Word: jump
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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...
...bets between individuals) have increased a thumping 57% in the past five years. Casinos took in more than half of all bets, or $164 billion; sports gambling was a distant second with a $28 billion take, up 57% from 1983. Though impressive, that increase was dwarfed by a 98% jump in the coins clinked into slot machines, a 103% rise in legal bookmaking and a 228% leap in money wagered in cardrooms...
Even those figures understate the spread of gambling fever. The biggest jump is in gambling that state and local governments not merely tolerate but promote. By next January, lotteries will be operating in 32 states and the District of Columbia, including four states -- Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky and Minnesota -- whose voters approved them in referendums last November. In 1964 only one state, New Hampshire, had a lottery. Christiansen/Cummings figures that the lotteries took in $17 billion last year, up 230% from 1983. As the lotteries have proliferated, so have the jackpots: Pennsylvania's $115.5 million drawing in April prompted bettors from...
Some national polls reflect a dramatic jump in approval. Gallup has Bush at 70%, up 14 points since May, 10 points higher than Ronald Reagan when he approached the six-month mark. A TIME/CNN poll taken last Wednesday shows Bush cruising along at 63% approval at a point when the presidential honeymoon usually comes to an end and a slide begins. Pundits have called this a "second honeymoon" and "Teflon II." Neither seems quite right since we now know that Bush takes showers with his dog -- hardly the stuff of romance...
...more wonderful). The donkeys advanced along the trail like a party of schoolgirls in dove-gray uniforms, sociable and disorderly, the sheer din of their progress driving off elephants and lions and all other wilder beasts as Toad's parade advanced. Toad surveyed the line of march with a jump of pleasure. En passant with his olive-wood walking stick, he poked cannonballs of elephant dung and judged how long ago the beasts had passed. Now and then they came upon Samburu tending herds of high-humped Boran cattle. But mostly they walked in solitude. Toad savored the wild walker...