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...normally skeptical Dole, returning from a two-day trip last week to Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, admitted to a lieutenant, "It feels good out there." This campaign is different from his previous outings. Discipline is now a more regular companion. Prior to his announcement swing in April, Dole spent some time at his Washington headquarters delivering his stump speech to an empty TV studio. He wasn't keen about the idea-and he didn't deliver it very well. But his aides first tested the speech's broad themes with a focus group of Republican...
...opening-night film was the French City of Lost Children, and this was the festival of lost children. You couldn't swing a cat-or kick one, as the main character in Kids does-without hitting a movie about troubled teens in heat and on the rampage. Between frantically perfunctory bouts of sexmaking, the rich kids in the Spanish film Stories of the Kronen hang recklessly from a bridge over a busy highway. The teenage girls in the Thai film Daughters sniff glue as a break from their stealing and prostitution. In La Haine, denizens of the bleak projects outside...
Jean-Pierre Frohlich, an assistant ballet master who has worked with Robbins often, says that to make the dancers think in terms of character, Robbins had them construct a biography for each one. The women reveled in the costumes. At rehearsal, they twirled around in the swing skirts popular in the '50s, getting the feel of cinched waists and ruffles-very different from the Ts and minis of today...
Tickets will cost $20 for students and be free to faculty and staff. A swing band and a DJ will be hired to play...
These song lyrics from "The Way You Look Tonight" were first featured in the 1936 black-and-white musical "Swing Time." Fred Astaire sang them to the ineffable Ginger Rogers, who was coiffed and dressed as immaculately as always, ready to waltz (or tango, or foxtrot) into his arms...