Word: abt
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Despite the subtitle, only slightly more than half the book deals with the daily life of ABT, and this section is actually a more superficial treatment of behind-the-scenes life than Mazo's. Stevens' strength is the concise, graceful way he fleshes out the background of a professional dancer's world, the grounds of experience one doesn't see on a daily basis but which are no less a part of each performance than the rehearsals. There is an unusually perceptive discussion of partnering, for instance-presumably the fruit of Stevens' own experience-a vivid and painful account...
...spokesman for ABT Associates Inc., a consulting organization which surveyed several hundred institutions on their accessability to the disabled, said yesterday Harvard has made considerable improvement in accommodating the handicapped during the last school year
...played pinochle in my life." In the line of duty, however, Barnes attended another performance of the ballet (about the ax-wielding Lizzie Borden) and wrote a glowing review of Marcia Haydée, who was guest dancer with the American Ballet Theater. Unpleased was Ballerina Sallie Wilson, the ABT regular who has danced the lead role impeccably for many seasons without getting what she considers to be a fair shake from Barnes. "I've had a whole career that he's ignored," she fumed. "Then he meets me at parties and gives me a big slushy kiss...
Extravagant Bluster. For a time, however, it looked as if Feld could think only with his feet. A year after his triumph he left ABT with extravagant bluster. Said he: "They wouldn't make me director of the company, they wouldn't give me the whole company to do with what I like." That outburst was enough to make critics write off Feld with a hauteur that resembled his own. Unrepentant, he set up shop as the American Ballet Company, but ran out of money within two years. He had just about decided to give up choreography when...
...income after taxes for Abt rose from $149,000 in 1970 to $527,000 in 1974--an increase of just under 30 per cent every year since 1970. Revenues have skyrocketed from under $7 million in 1972 to $16.5 million in 1974. Merrill says that Abt's financial success is paralleled by all the other Cambridge firms that have gone into consulting...