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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elected tribal Chairman in 1970, MacDonald set out to improve the Navajos' economy by demanding better prices for the tribe's oil, coal and natural-gas reserves. Along the way, say his critics, the Chairman spent tribal funds profusely. He reportedly hired a public relations firm for $1.5 million. He had his office in Window Rock, Ariz., remodeled for $600,000, of which $4,800 alone went to pay for carved office doors. He chartered a jet for more than $18,000 to take him and his family to the 1988 Orange Bowl...
...Jerome Robbins' Broadway is a sacred remnant of the musical at its mid-century peak -- a fusion of wit, precision, melody and high spirits -- that an aging generation of theater lovers miss terribly and want back. "We are in an era of high school production numbers and arias set to a backbeat," says Jule Styne, who wrote songs for five Robbins musicals. "A lot of people will see this show and realize what they've missed." Co-producer Emanuel Azenberg must hope so too. "Shows that have been successful lately are just not for me," he says. "Then...
Coppola's Life Without Zoe, a sort of Eloise story set at the Sherry Netherland Hotel instead of the Plaza, is the weakest entry. It occasionally says something mildly amusing about the overprivileged children of New York & City's rich and famous. But Coppola and his co-writer, who happens to be his 17-year-old daughter Sofia, cannot settle on a tone for their overplotted yarn of a Junior Ms. Fixit, working simultaneously on the cases of a poor little rich boy and her parents' wavering marriage. The Coppola team tries satire and sentiment, but the story...
...NRDC report goes on to charge that the Government is failing to protect youngsters adequately from such dangers. It points out that current legal limits for pesticide residues, set by the EPA, are based on the consumption patterns and physiology of adults. Children eat a great deal more food for their body weight than adults. They also consume more fruit, which makes up an estimated 34% of preschoolers' diets, in contrast to 20% for adults'. Youngsters eat six times as many grapes, seven times as many apples and seven times as much applesauce as their parents. The typical preschooler drinks...
Children may also be more vulnerable than adults to pesticides because their bodies are still maturing. Cells are rapidly dividing, and organs, like the liver, may not be as efficient in removing toxic chemicals. "We must revise all existing tolerances and set the levels for children," says Janet Hathaway, the NRDC's chief lobbyist in Washington. "We should be able to eat food without worrying that we are sowing the seeds of cancer...