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After observing administrators like Richard Allen, Anne Burford, Rita Lavelle, James Watt, Edward Meese and now William Clark, I am convinced that U.S. affairs are being directed by a group of incompetents...
ACQUITTED. Rita M. Lavelle, 35, a former assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; of contempt of Congress for failing to testify in March about her management of the EPA hazardous-waste-cleanup fund on the ground that she was "emotionally and physically unable to attend," after less than two hours of deliberation by a federal jury; in Washington. Dismissed by President Reagan in February, Lavelle still faces possible perjury charges for earlier congressional testimony...
...families of the patients. The affliction's rising incidence threatens to make it a nightmare for the country at large. By far the leading cause of mental deterioration among the elderly, AD affects between 5% and 10% of all people over 65. Among them: former Movie Star Rita Hayworth, 64. Because most AD patients must eventually be placed in institutions, the disease puts tremendous demands on the nation's health-care resources. Alzheimer's victims constitute 50% to 60% of the 1.3 million people in nursing homes, accounting for more than half...
When the curtain rises on Jerome Robbins' new ballet, Variations on I'm Old Fashioned, the audience sees a movie screen. A four-minute film clip from You Were Never Lovelier (1942) shows Fred Astaire dancing with the breathtakingly lovely Rita Hayworth, then 24. They start off slowly, pick up momentum, then get rambunctious, in an elegant way. Passing through the French doors at the end of the sequence, they even bump shoulders briefly before gliding off into one of the many mansions reserved for the gods of dance...
...demonstration? Spoofed? Hardly. But here is Jerome Robbins, an eminent choreographer and veteran theatrical wizard, presenting it all as a 35-minute classical ballet complete with toe shoes. In any serious sense he does not succeed. New York City Ballet, alas, does not have any girls as sexy as Rita, nor any boys who even set one thinking of Fred. The secret formula for the chemistry of Astaire's ballroom duets remains intact. Despite all this, Robbins, shrewd old romantic that he is, has come up with a diverting piece, a summer night's smile, evanescent, pretty, mildly...