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Ching Ling Foo, "Court Conjurer to the Empress of China," wowed Western audiences when he toured the U.S. at the turn of the century. Now American Magician Mark Wilson, whose thaumaturgical fame dates from his days as star of TV's The Magic Land of Alla Kazam in the '60s, is seeking to balance the trade in his trade by taking his bag of tricks to China. While visiting the People's Republic to arrange performances there next fall, Wilson conjured up big crowds with small, impromptu gigs in which he would make white penknives turn black...
...lesson may be that rock travels well, but does not translate. Conversely, what does not translate easily to the West sounds the best, like the luminous, haunting folk-song collections of Zhanna Bichevskaya, whose mesmerizing soprano melds historical traditions and new directions. Alla Pugacheva has attained greater popular success, however, by going West. Pugacheva's act is a salmagundi of recycled Pink Floyd instrumentals, a sort of sunflower delicacy grafted from Joni Mitchell and chanteuse dramaturgy...
...students who found him aware of and sympathetic to their special concerns and anxieties in this vast, busy and often cold University. We loved him-but did not always dare say it to that master of understatement. He embodied the highest values of American liberalism, just as his wife Alla, with her warm good spirits and her wonderful way of telling stories, embodies all that is best in Russian culture...
...theme of this year's Biennale-that vast, sprawling international conspectus of current art that opens at irregular intervals in the public gardens of Venice and is one of the city's main tourist attractions-is "Dalla Natura All'Arte, Dall'Arte Alla Natura" (from nature to art, from art to nature). Appropriately, then, the star of the 1978 press week was not an artist but an animal...
Because the parents' organization took no action, Galbraith can now only refer his charges to the board of trustees of Wellesley, which has already affirmed support for the administration in the controversy, Alla O'Brian, a Wellesley College spokesman, said yesterday...