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Over the last two years, Republicans have also made considerable progress in the area of tax reform. Under President Ford's direction, Congress recently passed an extensive tax reform bill that has eliminated numerous loopholes and inequities of pas tax legislation. At the same time, the Ford administration has judiciously encouraged corporate tax deducations in order to encourage investment and attendant generation of jobs in the private sector. With considerable vision, Ford has bucked the big-spending Democratic Congress in favor of fiscal responsibility. Through veto after veto he has condemned deficit spending and debasement of the currency as sure...
...Joseph Maher). As a boy, he used to idle away hours in the trees. As a man, he has idled away his life as a compulsive gambler and is now a gigolo in a nightclub. The woman he lives with is the club hustler (Suzanne Lederer). The conversational pas de trois that these three engage in is replete with bitterness and non-sequitur absurdist humor. The performers are also forced to carry an elephantine load of symbolism...
Ford and his strategists assessed the Reagan move accurately and with caution. Says one insider: "We saw it as a dangerous gamble that Reagan would not have made if he were not behind and worried, but we sure didn't proclaim it the political faux pas of the century right away." Indeed, the President's aides expressed some sympathy for Reagan, who they concede has run a strong, issue-oriented campaign. "I feel a little sorry for the Governor," explained a Ford assistant. "There was no way he could catch up. He had to roll the dice...
There are no heroes or villains in A Month in the Country, only human beings submitting ruefully to love's power. Seymour, an inspired actress, almost dances words as well as feelings. Ashton is one of ballet's supreme storytell ers. His pas de deux resemble poems. Dowell dances a sonnet with Natalia, a schoolboy's idyl with Vera, a naughty couplet or two with a coquettish maid. The clear dance designs, all curves and spirals, are infused with his classic sensibility. Let us hope for many another Ashton delight...
...Judith Jamison of New York's Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Co. and Mikhail Baryshnikov, celebrated defector from Russia's Kirov Ballet, will be partners all right-as dancers rather than daters. Last week the couple showed off a few moves to promote a May 11 benefit pas de deux in behalf of the Ailey troupe and Boys Harbor, Inc., a New York charity for youngsters. And how will Jamison (5 ft. 10 in.) fare with the smaller (5 ft. 6 in.) premier danseur? "Misha grows when he dances," she says. "He's expandable...