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...dramatize their claim that Reagan's tax policies favor the rich and penalize the poor. No matter, the cap has little chance to pass the Senate, and even if it did, it would be vetoed by Reagan, a veto that Congress lacks the votes to override. The vain effort will provide the Democrats with a measure of campaign fodder...
...York City Ballet, along with Jerome Robbins, he intends to let nothing stand in the way of his dream. Not even his dancing. Last week Martins, 36, announced that he was giving up his calling of the past 29 years. Said he: "I'm too vain to dance badly; too professional to direct poorly. One or the other would have to suffer." He will probably dance his last in November, in City Ballet's annual production of The Nutcracker. That has a nice symmetry to it: Martins would be exiting in the same role that he performed...
...after dawn, thunderous explosions boomed every five seconds across the Shomali region of northeast Afghanistan, as Soviet tanks and artillery fired more than 1,000 shells at suspected guerrilla hideouts. Every 15 minutes, in reply, came the resounding rattle of heavy machine-gun fire as the guerrillas aimed, in vain, at two helicopter gunships circling high above the green plains. That evening tanks could be heard clanking through the darkness. By morning they were gone...
...Oscar playing Gandhi, has brought his one-man show on 19th century Actor Edmund Kean to the West End. Griff Rhys Jones, who mugged his way to TV celebrity on the BBC's Not the Nine O'clock News, is conducting a valiant but vain effort to revive the corpse of Charley's Aunt. Most of the cast treats this 1892 farce as reverently as if they were playing Westminster Abbey; Rhys Jones, dressed for most of the play in widow's weeds, at least manages a passable impression of Margaret Rutherford imitating Queen Victoria...
...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, may be there will be again"). And all will be in vain forever, gurp, forever ("If it was 18351 wouldn't have to go on my unicycle to Revere Beach. I could drown in my room...