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Life went on as usual last week in the Square except for some traffic tie-ups caused by the marches, but the events of last week raised the distinct possibility that this image may soon recur as more than just a memory...
...Cinderella story to catch the fancy of underdog rooters everywhere and stamp a presence on the national mind as copper bright and shiny as a new penny from the Denver Mint. It is exquisite, this first flirtation with a world championship of sport. No matter how often it may recur, it will never again be so sweet. It excuses the excesses and lifts the hearts of all who look on and recall...
Croce began watching the New York City Ballet when she was a student at Barnard. In addition to writing the New Yorker column, she is editor of the quarterly Ballet Review. Her standards can be formidably high. What does she like? Certain words recur: clarity (for Gelsey Kirkland), purity (for Baryshnikov), amplitude (for Farrell and Peter Martins). If Croce's criticism has a godfather, it is George Balanchine, who, after all, reinvented classical ballet and made it American. If she has an idol among dancers, it is Baryshnikov, though she thinks that A.B.T. misuses his genius...
Weekes believes that in most cases psychoanalysis is the wrong approach. She has found that prolonged stress or shock?a death, divorce or birth ?can turn ordinary anxiety into a flash of panic. Then, she says, "the fear that it will recur keeps a person within a restricted orbit. What's the use of looking into that person's childhood for an explanation...
Occurring anywhere from one to eight times a month, migraines usually begin in the teens or early 20s and can recur for the remainder of the victim's life. Women seem about twice as vulnerable as men, yet a related headache called the cluster (because it strikes repeatedly over several hours) most often affects tall, hard-driving men. For years the standard treatment for chronic headaches was a combination of the drug ergotamine tartrate and caffeine (Cafergot), which acts to constrict the expanded blood vessels...