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Anything Goes stumbles, not over intricate dance steps or difficult staging, but on misguided sincerity. Too often the actors finish their lines on a note of relief, not flippant joie de vivre. And while the cast is continually singing of frolic, they sometimes pay only lip service to the concept. After a particularly complicated dance scene at the close of "It's Delovely," Hope Harcourt (Eva Yablonsky) throws Billy (Benajah Cobb) a long grateful look.\Maybe it's love, but maybe it's because he didn't drop her. Unfortunately, the show's recurring hints of uncertainty tend to suggest...
When asked if the pain has slowed her down, she is emphatic. "No, no. These are things that happen to everybody." Well, not quite. Not everyone has had a tiny malignancy removed from her lip, as Nancy did last December. But there has been no recurrence, she points out, "and you can hardly...
That presidential pardon was enough to derail a no-confidence resolution in the Senate. Even so, insiders were betting that the Secretary's days were numbered. G.O.P. strategists view Watt's loose lip as a political liability. Said one top White House aide: "It hurts us on the 'sensitivity' issue...
Mexican governments, furthermore, have a strong domestic motive for paying lip service to revolutions in the region. The country's stability, remarkable by Latin American standards, has been achieved through astute bargaining among various power groups. By stressing Mexico's revolutionary credentials in foreign policy, the government co-opts leftist parties that might be opposed to its more conservative policies at home. Says Mexican Social Democrat Luis Sanchez Aguilar: "When the left applauds the external policy of Mexico, it has an excuse to forget the rightist policies inside...
...saying "ahh" and "eee," then placed between the two pictures a loudspeaker that could make either sound. The babies invariably looked toward the picture that fit the sound. "This means that babies can detect the relationship between mouth movements and the sounds they hear," says Meltzoff. "Essentially, babies are lip readers...