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...singularities of the 1976 election-with two candidates who displayed well-developed capacities for blundering-gavepollsters their sternest test. They appear to have earned good grades...
...Trock impressed the New Yorker's Arlene Croce, perhaps the sternest dance critic of all. Reviewing Bassae/Karpova's performance in the Don Quixote, Croce wrote: "Karpova, I believe, gave a better performance than the Bolshoi's Nina Sorokina. There was more wit, more plasticity, more elegance and even more femininity in Karpova's balances and kneeling backbends than in all of Sorokina's tricks." The Track's recent winter season drew such eminent visitors as Jerome Robbins and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Sighed Bassae: "After 20 years of dancing I finally made it when...
...birth control, said Marcus, Rockefeller has made a "criminal commitment to genocide accompanied by a commitment to reduce massively the standards of living of the world's industrialized sector to levels matching those in the Third World." This was too much even for one of Rocky's sternest critics on the committee. "I find your statement so excessive and so extreme that it is counterproductive," said California Democrat Jerome Waldie...
Miss Fisher is congenitally clumsy, addled despite her sternest efforts at control, and at least a full generation older than Walter. He is nevertheless severely smitten. The movie is at its quiet best, funny and affectionate, as it chronicles their unlikely courtship. Walter woos Miss Fisher by rushing her, trying to blow her off her unsteady feet with little gusts of adolescent energy. They nearly do not get together. Miss Fisher, despairing of herself and of some mysterious, occasionally violent speech impediment, attempts suicide, but is revived by the eager Walter, who finds himself bleating all manner of hortatory clich...
There is plenty of support in New York and elsewhere for the sternest possible drug-control measures. Said...