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With the exception of the Snowflakes' waltz, borrowed from Vassily Vainonen's Kirov production, Baryshnikov completely restaged The Nutcracker. His choreography is in a classical mold, swift and precise. There are overhead lifts of every variety, and many florid codas. In spirit, Baryshnikov echoes New York City Ballet's Jerome Robbins. Fluent lyrical lines are buoyed up by the current of the music. Like Robbins, too, he sometimes descends into Broadway kitsch; a clash of cymbals in the orchestra pit invariably signaled a showy lift onstage. The audience adored...
Rand's experts have written on basic physics, engineering, statistics, economics, sociology and world cultures and religions. They know how peasants in northeastern Thailand make their living--and how the economy there can be developed to fit a more Western mold. They have examined the role of the Catholic church in Latin American society. Their reports include countless mathematical models for efficient allocation of resources. Rand physicists have even stepped back to a cosmic perspective and scanned the whole globe to find "The Exact Solution for the Propagation of Electromagnetic Pulses over a Highly Conducting Spherical Earth...
Rosalynn Carter may well turn out to be an active presidential wife in the mold of Eleanor Roosevelt, her heroine. "There are so many things that need to be done," she says. "It excites me to think that I could help." She is working with the National Association for Mental Health, and she wants to improve programs for the elderly. She has also promised to "do what I can" to help pass the long-stalled Equal Rights Amendment. She very likely will sit in occasionally on Cabinet meetings and expects to hold issue-oriented press conferences...
Both forwards are 6 ft. 7 in., and while the senior Bergen is cast more out of the "tough" Jerry Lucas mold, sophomore James is a strong offensive threat, whom Sanders terms "a good shooter who we're looking for continued improvement from during the season...
...negotiations, caught most of the airline's employees by surprise It was clear that the pilots underestimated the gravity of a signal sent out by Robert Six, 69, Continental's tough chief executive, who is regarded as the last of the pioneer airline bosses in the mold of Juan Trippe (Pan Am) and Eddie Rickenbacker (Eastern). In a memorandum to all employees, Six warned, "I will not mortgage Continental's future by surrendering to demands which will ensure the failure of this company...