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...unwieldy company with its temperamental stars and eclectic repertory. Choreographer Agnes de Mille remarked that "Lucia is nine-tenths granite," probably an accurate assessment, but a side of Chase that the public did not see. Formerly a ballerina, she became a self-effacing impressario who stayed out of the spotlight, gave insipid interviews when talking at all, and quietly went on ordering up the baling wire to keep A.B.T. going...
Then the real Lucia Chase finally appeared (only she knows how old she is, but she looked effervescent and radiant in a fluffy pink dress). Alone in the spotlight, she seemed ill at ease and quickly beckoned all the dancers out from the wings. She hugged old comrades and youngsters just up from the corps. Later she likened them all to her clan...
...must do more. To insure Harvard's reputation in years to come--not to mention his own--Rosovsky must demonstrate a real concern for undergraduate education. He should apply the spark now, while the spotlight is still on Harvard, and initiate reform at both the upper and lower extremes of Harvard's educational bureaucracy. As long as the highest level, tenuring, de-emphasizes teaching, the tendency will be for aspiring graduate students and assistant professors to do the same...
Presumably, Castro also decided that the evacuation would turn world attention away from the Peruvian embassy fiasco and focus the spotlight instead on Washington's scramble to cope with the flood of refugees. In this, Castro appeared to be successful. "He sure is clever at making his problem our problem," said one White House aide...
...combination of a congressional hearing, an erroneous press report that the Arthritis Foundation had urged FDA approval of the drug and a segment on the TV show 60 Minutes have put DMSO back in the spotlight and renewed the controversy over its effectiveness. Is DMSO, as its supporters stubbornly claim, "the aspirin of the 21st century"? Or is it, as its detractors insist, merely a quack drug, "another Laetrile...