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...characteristic swivels and slides may look improvised, but Tharp's dances are planned down to the final blink. At rehearsals she snapped out commands: "Soft elbows, make sure you lift your skirts, ladies, watch your eleves," or "That retard should last forever, Marianna-you have a full second." In Tharp time, a second is an eternity. Her dancers are given a lot to do in the space of a beat. In one seemingly continuous motion, swaying hips slink into wiggles that burst into furious pirouettes, then stop on a dime and reverse directions. It is as if Tharp worked...
...other dream: quite simply, they believe in themselves. Twice each day Rocky stops at the neighborhood pet shop to crack a joke, trying to get the attentions of Adrian, an unmarried, unsought "loser" who stands without a word, feeding the caged birds. "Hey, I hear she's a retard," the loan shark's driver mocks Rocky. But under the fighter's clumsy, tender patience, Adrian emerges from behind her harlequin glasses as an appealing, attractive woman. "I always knew you was beautiful," Rocky whispers. With a sharp jab from the left, Rockybecomes a love story...
...greatest worry was that default would retard American-and hence international-economic recovery. Said a high West German official: "President Ford obviously does not understand the implications. A bankruptcy would, at the very best, endanger the U.S. economic rebound and most likely erode faith overseas in the American Government's economic seriousness. The question is whether, after a default, the banks will have the money-and the nerve-to provide the loans U.S. business needs to fuel the economic recovery." Warned Kurt Richebacher, general manager of the influential Dresdner Bank: "Default would have a considerable impact abroad on confidence...
...burst of inflation. But there is concern that the recent price rises may presage a move by some companies to seize on the first fragile signs of a rebound, to raise their prices. Any such trend, warns Albert Rees, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, would "retard the recovery very severely" by discouraging consumer buying...
...Communist leaders are painfully aware of the possible consequences of the price increases. Of the five uprisings that have shaken Eastern Europe since 1953, three stemmed directly from unpopular economic measures. Once again, Eastern European workers will be asked to make sacrifices. The increased fuel costs are bound to retard the growth of Eastern Europe's fertilizer, petrochemical and synthetic textile industries, and limit supplies of some consumer goods. Those goods will have to be sold to the Soviet Union to raise rubles, but Moscow is insisting on terms of trade that are likely to anger Eastern Europeans. Though...