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...wrangling in Japan's modern history. In fact the L.D.P. emerged so battered that Fukuda last week vowed to "rebuild the party from scratch, and [I] will stake my political life on accomplishing it." The leader of the L.D.P's largest faction, whose intellect had won him plum jobs in the Ministry of Finance before he turned to politics in 1952, has probably done exactly that. But as a man with a reputation for tenacity as well as ambition, Fukuda, a longtime power broker in the party, has always felt that "a day is bound to come when...
...life, defends its young mistress, Marie, against an army of huge mice, then turns into a young prince. A white bed, moving under its own power, transports Marie through a wintry forest and into the Land of Sweets. There she and the prince are entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy before they fly off in a reindeer-drawn coach to eternal happiness...
...call it The Dance of the Cornflakes' because we've got corns on our feet from dancing it so often." There are few major dancers or choreographers whose careers have not crossed that of Herr Drosselmeyer, Marie (or Clara, as she is sometimes known) or the Sugar Plum Fairy. Dame Margot Fonteyn made her debut at Sadler's Wells in 1934 as a snowflake. Both Rudolf Nureyev and Baryshnikov danced the prince as young men in Leningrad, as did Balanchine himself some 60 years...
...plum pudding, blazing in brandy...
...some chance the President-elect himself begins browsing through the Plum Book, he may allow himself a smile of irony. Just inside the title page is a list of the members of the committee that published the book, and its vice-chairman is none other than Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.). Even on his own committee, it seems he finished second this year...