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...needed in recent years. Until her Olympic appearance, one ideal had been sacrificed to the other. But grace and athleticism are not mutually exclusive, as Witt convincingly proved. Her free-skating program was the most technically difficult of all the competitors, and included three triple jumps and a triple toe loop in combination with a double jump that she performed faultlessly in the opening seconds. With that difficult maneuver safely tucked away on the judges' scorecards, she broke into a radiant smile that never faded through a medley of mostly Gershwin songs. Here, too, she taught the others...
...Only. A trunkful of Gershwin songs, colorful sets from a wise child's kindergarten and a pair of toe-tapping charmers in Twiggy and Tommy Tune make for Broadway's airiest enchantment...
...wouldn't grow up and, yes, apparently pansexual too. This last aspect of Culture Club has caused many titters, generated a lot of speculation and produced countless photos of Boy George, resplendent and unrepentant, winking or moue-ing in four-color splendor. His wardrobe is a tip-to-toe tutorial in the applied art of sartorial shock: coats that Scaramouche might have worn had Scaramouche been a color-blind butcher, a rabbi's black felt hat and unorthodox ties that seem to glow radioactively. His makeup is heavy: mascara (more under the eye than over), raspberry-colored lips...
When a Congressional fact-finding mission returned, however, filled with a strong host of doubters, most significantly his own Democratic colleague from Massachusetts, Edward Boland, O'Neill suddenly began to toe the Administration line. Inexplicably switching his position on what justifies an invasion, O'Neill seemed to be satisfied with having been let in on the facts of Grenada, and once in the fold, he now agrees with the Administration's policy...
...government--the only international voice to speak out in favor of the referendum--will also toe the new South African line. With the advent of the Reagan Administration a pattern of "constructive engagement" with South Africa reversed the legislation of the Carter era. Although the House voted last week to put severe restrictions on future American loans and investments to South Africa, most Americans still cling to the overly pessimistic view of peaceful change in the country...