Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trim, well-dressed lawyer from Santiago, Jorge Blanco, 55, advocates a mix of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism to steady the Dominican Republic's badly faltering economy. Like his predecessor, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, he faces an economy burdened with sharply higher oil costs (from $60 million in 1977 to an estimated $600 million this year) and depressed prices for such export commodities as sugar, gold, coffee and ferronickel. Almost half of the Dominican work force is either unemployed or underemployed...
...working title for E.T. was A Boy's Life. And as surely as any work of science fiction can be its author's autobiography, the boy here is Steven Spielberg. His parents seeded the mix of science and art that would surface in Spielberg's films: his father Arnold was a computer engineer, his mother Leah a former classical pianist. (They were divorced when Steven was 17.) In many ways, he was a typical boy. He loved animals, especially cocker spaniels-and parakeets, which he kept in his bedroom, flying free. "There would be birds flying around...
...taken from the Kirov's gallery of classics-Swan Lake, Giselle, La Sylphide, La Bayadère-but there are a few modern works, including Maurice Béjart's Bhakti and a new work choreographed by Oleg Vinogradov, the Kirov's director. To Vinogradov the mix is about right. "This company is good enough to do any kind of choreography," he says, "but we are proud of our reputation as a museum, a Hermitage of choreography. Here the classical repertory in its entirety is preserved...
...still not a good idea to mix brands by trading a Fleer Mike Schmidt for a Topps Jim Rice, but the new competition has had one good side effect. There seem to be good players in every pack...
...mix flourishes in part because much of the area is relatively virgin territory for the rich. "It's no longer pleasant to go to the South of France," sniffs one visitor. "It's so inundated, the pleasure is gone. Life in Southern California revolves around private homes and backyard swimming pools. They've overcasualized; there's almost an absence of tone." Says Helen Boehm, president of the porcelain company that bears her name: "I've been all over the world, and this place has glamour, color and manicure." Boehm (rhymes with dream) saw her very...