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...shot down over Nicaragua two months ago. The Sandinistas downed another craft last weekend, this one a DC-6 contra-supply plane, which resulted in at least four deaths. The one captured crew member, Alejandro Sanchez, confirmed Nicaraguan charges that contra-supply operations continue to operate out of Honduras' Swan Island, in defiance of the peace pact. He claimed that the entire crew had been Nicaraguan except for one Colombian. But the Sandinistas charged that U.S. citizens had been on the plane...
Price plays the part of Maranov with, as Libby might say, the grace of a swan, but his Russian accent is unabashedly horrible. But Price's soothing voice is almost enough to forgive him his inconsistent and unconvincing Russian lilt, as is the charming smile he beams at the screen...
...other. Dance and Photography, by William A. Ewing (Henry Holt; 240 pages; $50), is a collection of black-and-white photos tracing the history of that partnership, from rare daguerreotypes down to today's 35-mm snapshots. The focus of the collection is not on vanity icons of swan-necked ballerinas posing daintily in profile but on visions of grace and power. Two highlights: Max Waldman's grainy, lyrical image of Mikhail Baryshnikov rehearsing an impossibly bravura jete and an anonymous, easy-does-it portrait of Fred Astaire hoofing his way through Three Little Words...
...days of the young are numbered, usually with boring arithmetic drills. Bert Kitchen enlivens those routines by granting the digits wit and style. From one to ten, and then in larger leaps, Animal Numbers (Dial; $11.95) presents fauna with their offspring: a kangaroo and one joey, for example; a swan and two cygnets; a setter and ten puppies. A visit to this overflowing menagerie adds up to swift and painless math (and biology) lessons...
...even Hans Christian Andersen could invent a presidential candidate as ugly-duckling as Simon: floppy earlobes, horn-rimmed glasses, a putty-like face and a bow tie. Yet the rumble-voiced Illinois Senator has magically emerged as a swan in the Democratic race, partly by playing on his rumpled lack of glamour. Staring into the camera at the end of the first Democratic debate in July, he intoned, "If you want a slick packaged product, I'm not your candidate. If you want someone who levels with you, who you can trust, I am your candidate." Something in that simple...