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Tens of thousands of Icelandic women walked off their jobs for 24 hours last week to protest "male privilege." Businessmen could not place telephone calls because most of Iceland's switchboard operators had joined their sisters on protest lines chanting, "We dare! We can! We will!" The government was temporarily leaderless because President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir had stayed away from her office to demonstrate solidarity with the striking women. Worst of all was the problem of breakfast. Many Icelandic men, having awakened to discover that their wives were refusing to prepare the morning meal, jammed restaurants...
Administration officials admit that they have been indulging at least one prejudice. "There is a conscious attempt," says Rees, "to avoid appointing people who will be on the bench only a few years." Typically, too, appointees are male and white. Only four of Reagan's judges are black, eleven Hispanic, and 22 female. The long-term impact of younger white male appointments is troubling to liberal activists like Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "They will just be hitting their stride in 15 years," she says. "In any question that pits the rights of the individual...
...theme of the tango is sexual entanglement and male domination of the female--Latin machismo, in other words. The man's upper body is rigid, and the woman revolves around him; down below, their legs and feet meet and embrace in steps too involved even for a computer to comprehend. "The tango is a connection between the brain, the heart and the legs," says Virulazo Orcaizaguirre, 58, who looks like a Hispanic Rodney Dangerfield but moves like a slim lad of 20. "First, you feel with your heart. Then the brain tells you what to do with your feet...
...sweet, some sensuous, some fighting." He has been dancing with his own partner, María Nieves, 48, for 32 years, during nine of which they were husband and wife. Even after their divorce, they-continued working together. "The two of us dance as one person; the tango is not male and female, but their union as a couple...
...that rare feeling of a genuine emotional encounter between male and female that probably best explains the show's success. "The thought of going to New York was frightening," says Orezzoli. It was a little bit of a kamikaze decision." On such decisions are fortunes made. The Broadway run, originally scheduled for five weeks, has been extended at least through New Year's, and after New York, Tango will make an extensive North American tour. The dancers want the whole world to love those crazy steps. "The tango is the star of the show," asserts Elvira Santa Mar?...