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Aside from the shaky assumptions on which it rests, the juvenile court is notoriously inefficient (see box following page). Judges consider assignment to it not a plum but the pits. "I would rather die than preside in Family Court," says New York Criminal Court Judge Eve Preminger. "It's completely unrewarding." Cases are backed up in the overburdened, understaffed system. Complainants and witnesses, who are nervous to begin with and sometimes threatened by the offenders, become exasperated with waiting and walk out. Case dismissed...
...Plum blossoms welcome...
Since Charles II appointed John Dryden England's first Poet Laureate in 1668, the office has been occupied by a number of distinguished men, including Wordsworth, Tennyson, John Masefield and C. Day Lewis. But the job is no plum. As an officer of the royal household, a Poet Laureate ranks just above Bargemaster and Keeper of the Swans. By today's devaluated standards, his pay is $122.50 a year, plus $47.25 in lieu of a butt of sack-once part of the traditional stipend...
...growers, the Teamsters Union and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. The proposal that Carter supported would have permitted union organizers to campaign on growers' property and would have mandated secret elections for union representation. Shidan griped that he has had to pull up seven acres of plum trees because, at $2.75 per hr. for a migrant worker's labor, he could not afford to harvest them. "The politicians should stay...
...keen instinct for his craft, Baryshnikov has devised solutions that infuse his Nutcracker with logic as well as magic. There is the traditional Christmas tree that grows onstage, a puppet show and a pretty pink and white sleigh to transport Clara and her prince. But there is no Sugar Plum Fairy and the cast is entirely adult. Clara, danced by Marianna Tcherkassky, hovers somewhere between child and woman. Her godfather Drosselmeyer, brilliantly portrayed by Alexander Minz, is both fatherly and aboil with suppressed eroticism. Baryshnikov accents mystery and the paradox of the light and dark faces of the human soul...