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...Stanley likens the initiation to "trying to jump onto a spinning merry-go- round: you close your eyes and leap." Leaping into the Inaugural preparations, she discovered that "finding out which orchestras will play at which balls is almost as tricky as finding out which staff members will follow James Baker to the Treasury." Stanley also learned that even the most picayune details of pomp get top-level attention. "At one planning meeting," she reports, "I overheard the chief of Inaugural operations tell White House Adviser Michael Deaver how multicolored confetti could be made to stick to a ballroom floor...
Every President is heavily dependent for his success on the quality of the men and women he selects to fill the most important posts in his Cabinet and on his White House staff. In the Reagan Administration, that dependency has taken a quantum leap. By temperament and managerial choice, Ronald Reagan usually is content to chart the broadest philosophical directions for his Government and leave not only the details but much of the substantive content of policy to be developed by his advisers. When they disagree, he generally relies on them to work out a compromise among themselves; he chooses...
...dance, the human body defies gravity, time and its own limitations; it is man's most eloquent leap toward godliness. Almost a century of the art on film --from the cooch dancers of the 1890s to the breakdancers of the 1980s, from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring...
Goetz began his leap from anonymity on the afternoon of Dec. 22, when he was riding in a seedy subway car in lower Manhattan along with some 20 other passengers. The four youths, according to witnesses, were acting in a rowdy, intimidating manner. When they approached Goetz and asked him for $5, he replied, "I have $5 for each of you," and fired five bullets from a nonlicensed .38-cal. handgun, wounding all four and shooting two in the back. Then he fled. According to the prosecution, Goetz intended to kill the teen- agers, although he did not consider himself...
...Jack Vartoogian, in which she demonstrates how to perform some basic moves of ballet. Her explanations are models of clarity. They take time to follow, but the material on the humble tendu (the leg stretch that Balanchine called the basis of a dancer's technique) and the springy leap called the pas de chat will enhance watching the ballet ever after...