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...omniscient narration, Sharp vividly renders the inner lives of both 20th century legends—Balanchine and his muse Suzanne Farrell, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, among others—and her own fictive characters—primarily figured as members of the real NYCB or American Ballet Theater (ABT). She lends an aura of verisimilitude to her readers’ vicarious participation in the lived experience of dance...
...narrator of the climatic title story asserts, “[Audiences] wanted to see a love story, and this was the big one, ‘Swan Lake,’ four acts of love, regret, death, and absolution.” Indeed, when ABT principals and lovers Lexa and Robbie dance the roles of the Swan Queen Odette and her prince Seigfried, they exhibit a perfect “erotic synergy.” Odette’s desire for her prince ultimately defeats the evil sorcerer von Rothbart, who would keep them apart...
...summer traveling, practicing; finally, she decided to go professional with ballroom dancing.Like most girls, I started dancing ballet at age five. And I continued with ballet until the end of my junior year in high school. With ballet, if you want to reach the top level and dance with ABT or the NYC Ballet, you have to be 5’6, 110 pounds, have perfect turnout and great extensions naturally. I wasn’t willing to deal with that. I also wanted to attend Harvard and needed more time to study, so I quit ballet right before...
When scientists at Abbott Laboratories heard about Daly's research, they compared epibatidine with several hundred related compounds they had synthesized as experimental treatments for Alzheimer's disease. One of them, ABT-594, turned out to be remarkably similar but much less toxic. Tests on animals indicate that ABT-594 is about 50 times better than morphine in relieving both chronic and acute pain yet seems to be nonaddictive. Phase II tests on humans should be completed by the end of the year...
...well then, do u spk hindi in ur slp? ich spreche deutsch. i also sing until i wk myslf up. talk some more, soman. im hvg 2 tell stories abt myslf 2 kp e readrs intrstd...