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...store with the partitioned quiet. But only briefly. Time to fight back. Then the desire for separation turns to an eagerness, even a combativeness. I become almost comfortable with the idea I am under siege." Under siege, Cuomo can be hard. Last year when Democratic Leader Robert Strauss commented that if Cuomo became a presidential candidate, he needed to be less a voice of the past, the Governor fired off a bristling letter. Strauss tried to telephone for days, but Cuomo spurned the calls. After a disagreement with another national official, Cuomo demanded and got a public retraction, dictated verbatim...
Texas harbors surprises: Germans in the hill country, for example, still speaking in the accents that their forebears brought over in the 1840s. Says Robert Strauss, the Texan who is former chairman of the Democratic National Committee: "Texas is a montage of America. From the financial center of Dallas to the high-tech areas of Austin to the agricultural communities. It represents the sea and the mountains and the valleys, great wealth and pockets of poverty...
...seven, all residents of Weld and Strauss Halls, chose to appear before the Ad Board yesterday in 30-minute interviews to appeal last week's verdict...
...contribution of $7 million, Levi Strauss gets to create the official outfit of the class of '86. Gone are black gowns and mortarboards. In their place: for the guys, boot-cut denims, snap-button Western shirts with solid-color yokes and Stetson hats; for the gals, knee-length gingham skirts, Lady Fryes and matching blouses and bandannas. Members of the Harvard Corporation and other honored guests on the dais wear full-length cowhide chaps...
...bookings in Europe, commissions from established ballet companies (Boston, the Joffrey), a program on next season's PBS Dance in America series, invitations to pump some life into grand opera productions. (Morris choreographed the Dance of the Seven Veils on alternating sopranos in the current Seattle Opera production of Strauss's Salome...