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...guests, including the President and Nancy Reagan, were paying tribute to national leaders of the arts, not politics. The sixth annual Kennedy Center honorees for lifetime achievement-Dancer-Choreographer Katherine Dunham, 73, Director Elia Kazan, 74, Singer Frank Sinatra, 68, Actor Jimmy Stewart, 75, and Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, 87-were presented with the rainbow-ribboned medals during a gala black-tie reception and special performance. Said Sinatra: "I'm way up in the air. This is the most coveted award you can win." And they all did it their...
...movie has other flaws, as well. Instead of developing issues like the ones posed by Cruise's girlfriend (Lea Thomson)--who attacks the barriers non-athletes encounter in getting beyond jobs at the local grocery store--Chapman repeatedly resorts to less dangerous, more predictable cheap sell tactics. A student's "getting off" in typing class to the amusement of his peers is one of several examples. Because director Chapman seems afraid to go completely beyond one level of sophomoric romance, All the Right Moves never quite reaches its potential...
Reagan later telephoned King's widow Coretta to apologize for remarks that he said had been a "mistake." At the same time, however, the White House confirmed an exchange of letters between Reagan and former Republican Governor Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire. Thomson said a holiday for King would honor a man "of immoral character whose frequent associations with leading agents of Communism is well established." Reagan wrote back that "I have the same reservations you have, but here the perception of too many people is based on image, not reality...
South Koreans have also been suspended from participating in the Nieman Foundation for Journalism since 1974 James B. Thomson, director of the Nieman Fellowship program, explains that the decision to "put Korea on hold" was on the advice of Koreans who are alumni of the program...
...Nieman Fellows receive fellowships so that the journalists may go home and practice the craft of journalism with some modicum of freedom. In Korea, it's a special case of government oppression," says Thomson However, there are journalists from similar political climates in the Nieman program--from Poland and China--but Thomson says that in Korea's case. "We like to avoid countries ... that are closing down...