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...real show-stopper, however, is Jessica S.Semerjian as Lisette, Magda's maid. She radiatescharm, alternating between comic verve andsilken-voiced seduction, and turns her soubretterole into the production's pivot...
...days there were also thrilling partnerships that sold out houses worldwide. In Britain the great linkage of Fonteyn and Nureyev was followed by the pairing of Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell. Erik Bruhn and Fracci raced about the world bolstering the box office at various companies. Baryshnikov was the pivot in two blazing partnerships: one with Makarova that reached back to the pair's Russian roots, and an American one with Kirkland...
This brings us back to the quotation with which this editorial began. It is taken not from The Bell Curve or from any of its sources, but from Margaret Sanger's Pivot of Civilization, published in 1922. Margaret Sanger, as many readers may know, is the celebrated founder of Planned Parenthood, and an unrepentant eugenicist...
...turned out, Ravitch's ambitious double-play pivot did not exactly match the grace of Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith. It took Ravitch 18 months to work out a limited revenue-sharing formula. And even then the wealthier teams made it contingent on the players' miraculously agreeing to a salary cap. And though the baseball contract officially expired at the end of 1993, Ravitch didn't put the owners' salary-cap proposal on the negotiating table until mid-June. This complex plan would limit total player salaries to 50% of overall major league revenues, although guaranteeing that overall salaries would...
Andrew Jackson Higgins a pivot of history? No doubt, claims biographer Jerry Strahan. Higgins was a hard-drinking, tough-talking swamp rat and boat genius in New Orleans who developed the square-front wooden tubs that ferried Allied soldiers and their equipment onto the beaches. On the morning of June 6, 1,500 Higgins boats nestled aboard the larger transports, the crucial link between sea and shore...