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...still evokes awe. Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, who beat Navratilova twice in 1990 but was steamrollered at the Garden last week, says, "I really don't think she's getting any less good. There are days when she plays the best tennis she has ever played. She just has more ups and downs." When asked about her highlights of 1992, Navratilova cites two victories and, unthinkable a few years ago, a defeat by the current No. 1, Monica Seles, at Wimbledon. "I looked at the videotape, and it was much closer than I thought," she says with a smile. A couple...
...organization' moral trump card--divestment from South Africa--has been weakened by a series of South African political moves, including the release of Nelson Manuela and the passage of the De Klerk referendum...
Four language classes were chosen to participate in the video, two Italian, one French and one Spanish. Manuela Bertoni, one of the Italian teachers whose class was filmed yesterday, said. "This is the best group of students I've ever taught. When they prepare, they do well. When they don't, they do well. We didn't do anything special to prepare for being filmed...
Gordon's involvement with refugee issues and her compassion for their problems manifests itself in other spheres of her life. A poem she wrote, Manuela in Boston, which won first place last year in the Jane Grey Untermeyer poetry contest, expresses the spirit of the refugee experience...
...they cannot help being excited by the dancing, which expresses, in spontaneous but disciplined and concentrated movement, the passions of the Gypsy soul. Eduardo Serrano crosses the stage with the lacy delicacy of a tightrope walker before erupting in a virile drumbeat, a machine gun, of toe tapping. Manuela Carrasco draws all eyes with an ethereal hauteur that is only accentuated by the jackhammer snap of her commanding heels and the swirl of her long ruffled gown. Some are known chiefly by their nicknames, which, according to Gypsy custom, are short and pungent: El Chocolate, for example, or El Biencasao...