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...arranger and conductor whose shimmering, swirling string backgrounds enhanced the performances, on records and TV, of such stars as Judy Garland, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease); in Malibu, Calif. Pianist Jenkins started composing and arranging with the Swing Era's big bands, wrote Benny Goodman's closing theme, Goodbye, and won a Grammy Award for his stylish 1965 arrangement of Sinatra's It Was a Very Good Year...
...left, keeping the whole thing together. "I'm only part of the rhythm section," William (''Count") Basie would say. "I'm a pacesetter." When he died last week of pancreatic cancer at 79, the man from Red Bank, N.J., Kansas City, Mo., and the swing clubs of New York had indeed set the pace for one of the century's most accomplished jazz bands...
Both guest and host have diligently prepared for the occasion. In the month before his departure, Reagan sat through six 90-minute briefing sessions, instead of the usual three for a foreign swing. He watched a movie filmed by a White House advance team of the sites he would visit and perused a National Geographic book entitled Journey into China along with the usual policy papers. "I don't know why I didn't know enough about China to be as aware as I am now of the great scenic beauty of the land," Reagan confessed to a group...
...protégés. Eighteen months after he pledged his support to Mao's hand picked successor as Chairman, Hua Guofeng, Deng replaced him with General Secretary Hu Yaobang and installed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Now most experts agree that although the "open door" will continue to swing on its hinges, it has been open so wide for so long that even if the leftists could close it again, they would only lock in Deng's changes. Says a Western diplomat in Peking: "If you gave Deng a 20% chance of succeeding in 1978, you would give him an 85% chance...
...Swing Shift moves like a show horse with a faulty sense of direction. Rob Morton's script lacks both the grit and the incidents for flat-out comedy; it stolidly refuses to kindle the spark of romance between Kay and her swains; and while her girlfriends at the plant seem ripe to make an oddball ensemble, Director Jonathan Demme deflects their few chances for feminist fun. Through the oilcloth of nostalgia one can still spot some fine performances. Hawn unerringly registers Kay's every emotion with the wide-eyed intensity of a six-year-old; Christine Lahti...