Word: spirits
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RONALD REAGAN faced down his share of opponents, both foreign and domestic, onscreen and off, but there are some fights that even the strongest men can't win. While age and Alzheimer's are chipping away at the former President's mind and body, his spirit still responds to one of his first loves: horses. Perhaps taking heed of his own oft-quoted advice, "There's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse," Reagan, 86, recently made a rare public appearance at a polo match between Santa Monica and Brentwood, played at Will...
Hovering over South Africa last week was the spirit of Ailey, the brilliant Texas-born dancer and choreographer who, guided by the central tenet "Dance came from the people--we must take it back to the people," formed his company in 1958 as an incubator for contemporary black dance and nurtured it into a major American cultural icon. "There are times on stage when I speak to Alvin before I perform and ask him to guide me," said Nasha Thomas, 35, an 11-year veteran of the company. At the first performance, Thomas drew a thunderous ovation with her wrenching...
...thinks of herself as "a guide," and she most often guides with brainpower, computer savvy, a delightfully devious nature and a library of false identities, fleshed out with features like credit histories, that she has built up for herself and possible clients over the years. Now and then the spirit world sends a clue in a dream that villains are closing in, and Whitefield snoozes attentively...
...moment in writer-director Victor Nunez's film comes when Ulee could pick up a stray gun and blast a pair of bad guys away. He doesn?t, and you just know that this austere refusal of the conventionally melodramatic will eventually win 'Ulee's Gold' an Independent Spirit Award. "We, meantime, are left wondering if some dynamics in the direction, some perversity in the development of characters, some surprises in the story -- qualities that animated Lone Star, which so richly filled this slot last summer -- would constitute that much of a sellout...
...more liberal and Democratic than the general population--53% voted for President Clinton, vs. 34% for Bob Dole--12 years of growing up under Reagan and Bush imbued them with a distrust of government. "The do-it-yourself, no-one-is-going-to-look-out-for-me-but-me spirit among Xers is a product of coming of age when that was the message coming from the Administration," says Mia von Sadovsky, 29, an ad-agency researcher. "We have hard-wired into us a different approach to getting things done." A survey by Third Millennium found that...