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...practices and are banned from talking to the press until after the competition. Most are former skaters and instructors who work their way up from judging regional competitions to the world championships and Olympics. They are unpaid and unloved, doing, as former Gold Medalist Peggy Fleming notes, a "thankless...
...ballet troupe: there is something in it for everybody. While on tour, A.B.T. switched the various roles around frequently. As Prince Desire, Beauty shows off a young Argentine performer of enormous promise, Julio Bocca, 20. Handsome, ardent, with a big light jump, he gave dramatic strength to the often thankless part. As the first of the Auroras, Susan Jaffe was able to drop much of her cool languor to give a sprightly performance. For one of the Lilac Fairies, MacMillan dipped into the corps to find Jennet Zerbe, 22, a tall, ample dancer who gave a poignant impression of authority...
...Reagan finished. He opened with a historical reference: in the English Commons dating back to the 14th century, he noted, "speakers" were those designated to speak to the King, a role that occasionally cost them their heads. It made the point that loyal opposition plays an important but sometimes thankless role in a democratic system...
...that finds credibility with the South Africans . . . and the rest of the world." A day later the State Department contended that Todman had not meant to criticize U.S. policy and had been quoted "out of context." In any event he obviously had no wish to take on the probably thankless assignment in Pretoria...
...chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Domenici has had the thankless task of trying to work out a compromise on the fiscal-1987 budget that might satisfy lawmakers and the President while meeting the $144 billion deficit ceiling set by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law. It was enough to drive the Senator, a reformed chain smoker, back to bumming cigarettes from the Capitol doorkeepers. Near the end of a week of feverish bargaining, Domenici stepped out of a conference with Majority Leader Bob Dole and was asked, "What do you think?" He replied, "I think this is a crazy place...