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...Peninsula: Can you spell f-a-s-c-i-s-t? Just lift up the white hood...Nein, mein Herr...

Author: By Adam J. Levitin, | Title: COLUMNS WE COULD HAVE WRITTEN, BUT DIDN'T | 2/22/1997 | See Source »

...asleep only to dream of him coming to her through the mirror in her room, thus beginning a tenderly beautiful pas de deux, superbly danced by Ponamarenko and Berdo. The choreography reflects the growing love of the young girl, with the steps and movements sweeping from the floor to lifts into the air. As the music builds, so does the emotion and intricacy of the steps until the scene ends with Tatiana sending her letter to Onegin. Larissa Ponamarenko is a beautifully delicate Tatiana who in each lift seems to be wafted like a feather on a breath...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: escape from social RHYME or REASON | 2/13/1997 | See Source »

...worry. I haven't always been a ski bum," Kevin F. Fitzpatrick '83 said to me on the chair lift up Okemo Mountain, where my roommates and I had sallied for a day or two of our brief intersession. Kevin was charged with the 1:15 group lesson for Skill 8 last Friday at the Ludlow, Vt. ski site. I was one of two members of the group, the other being a somewhat mute 13 year-old who, like myself, was supposedly proficient in parallel turning and sought to bridge the chasm between the intermediate blue squares and the advanced...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Slopes and Ladders | 1/30/1997 | See Source »

...never happened. Reich's view (that a rising economy does not lift all boats) became a quaint anachronism, as President Clinton tacked rightward. Today the Administration is wary of any proposal that might tinker with an economy performing better than ever. Unemployment, currently at 5.3%, is lower than at any other point in the past two decades. "Why mess with what's working?" says Budget Director Franklin Raines. "The growth rate is O.K. We should let things proceed as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOB TRAINING HAS TO BE REWORKED | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...embassy guardhouse and about 25 rebels belonging to a group known as the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement stormed into the compound. As the insurgents engaged police in a ferocious gun battle, everyone--Peruvian ministers, blue-chip business tycoons, assembled diplomats and their wives--dropped to the ground. "Don't lift your head," the rebels barked, "or it'll be shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GALA AT GUNPOINT | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

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