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After dinner, Joanna and I leaned back in spongy swivel chairs in the Skyview Lounge, watching the intermittently lighted expanses of Illinois flash by while other passengers took in the movie or hung out in the bar downstairs. When we returned to our sleeper, we found made beds beckoning...
DIED. FRED KELLY, 83, Broadway dancer and choreographer who taught his brother Gene to tap dance, gave ballroom-dancing lessons to Queen Elizabeth and helped a young John Travolta learn how to swivel his hips and improve his strut; in Tucson, Ariz...
Burying the past, though, will not come easily in a country where roughly 50% of children are stunted and urchins in wheelchairs swivel around in front of cybercafes crying, "No have mother!" On the map given to visitors who go to the local tourist center, the text boasts of Cambodia's "wonderful history" and its status as a "land of tolerance and of plenty." Visit the "Choeung Ek Genocidal Center," it urges brightly of the rural equivalent to Tuol Sleng, where executioners once beat babies' heads against trees, adding that Cambodia will be "an inexhaustible source of memories to each...
...back from Europe Thursday night, Albright sits in a swivel chair in the small situation room next to the President's office on Air Force One. "It's been a very fluid and interesting week," she says, with a spunkiness only partly masked by exhaustion. "It was important to bring Russia into what we were doing. We didn't want Russia to be isolated. There were two tracks: keeping NATO together and bringing the Russians in closer. I think we've managed to do that...
...signature of Mark Morris's choreography is the fusion of different dance forms he achieves in his works. In "Rhymes with Silver," the dancers swivel their heels and move their hips to the percussive beat of a Caribbean rhythm before striking a series of poses reminiscent of Indian dance. In a particularly striking moment, a dancer waltzes with her back to the audience while five men line up behind her partner and mimic his movements. Six pairs of arms and legs moving in different directions provoked laughter from the audience...