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...Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" in "The Rags Suite" (1972). Able to tie knots around the music's rhythm, the two are unable to embrace, botching several attempts, although at the end they do waltz (out of kilter) in their elegant white dress. Tharp connects each dancer's deep-down motor to his outside being, transforming the motor's violent churnings into zips of energy across the body--an odd metaphor for inside jitters...
...mellower George Wallace? Not the fellow who was stumping last week in Chicopee, Mass.-or "Chickapoo," as he once called it. There was space for 1,250 people in the meeting room of the Highpoint Motor Inn, but 2,500 turned up, so the feisty Alabama Governor simply went through his routine twice-an impressive performance for a man of 56 who is confined to a wheelchair, totally paralyzed from the waist down and partly deaf. It was vintage Wallace, and the crowd loved...
According to a Ford Motor Co. insider, rumors of a separation between Henry Ford II and his Italian-born second wife Cristina, whom he married in 1965, "were getting to be so well known that even gas-station attendants in Grosse Pointe were talking about...
Nowhere do the vicissitudes of the nation's business cycle show more starkly than in the Motor City and its environs. In times of economic hardship, unemployment and crime skyrocket; in times of prosperity, workers of different races and backgrounds, thrown together on assembly lines in a one-industry region, vent their frustrations in racial hatred and violence...
...story tower the men who built Detroit and their successors will have a bird's eye view of their city and the city across the river, and then maybe will be able to see why in 1974 there were only 25 murders in Windsor, and 801 in the Motor City...