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...paradox of the man turns out to be as fascinating to dance fans as the miracle of the artist in flight. Offstage he broods aloud about the "moral preparation" and asceticism that he insists are as important to the dancer as physical training -while avidly sipping a Scotch and soda and smoking cigarettes. He thinks of himself as a loner, "a wolf lost from the pack," but he is perhaps another kind of wolf as well. He has conducted affairs with several women-among them, dancers he has worked with-since arriving in the West last summer. He ended...
Nick seemed in perpetual bliss, and got even further into that state when I offered to read aloud both volumes of Penny's journals so he could get a little different perspective on the whole thing. By that time I had drunk two tequila sunrises. So the reading was full of emotion, but no little imprecision as well. None of this bothered Nick, who smiled away. He said this time it was the real thing. He said he'd given up all the girls who once crossed his path and he didn't miss them. He understood, he said, that...
...Though the resolution did not specifically demand Thieu's ouster, more than 20 of the 41 Senators voting for the resolution called in their speeches for the President to leave office. Viet Nam's ranking Catholic, the moderate Saigon Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh, agreed with the Senate and prayed aloud that Thieu would resign...
...turn Curly's inimitable mannerism into a parody of fagdom), plays a lecture by Cantor and, what promised to be the show of all shows--a talk by Professor Martin Kilson. And a fifty dollar essay contest on "Why I Like the Stooges," the entries to be read aloud between films. Finally a live phone hook-up with the last surviving original Stooge, Moe, from his nest in an Old Actor's Home in Southern Cal. This last emerged as a taped interview with Officer Joe Bolton (who has brought the Stooges to New York audiences for twenty year, which...
...find neither knife nor volunteer, as both grad students declined his invitation. "We're not your grad students," they said. "We're only on loan." But he was determined to analyze some blood, and after sterilizing a probe he began testing his fingertip gently. His resolve waning, he wondered aloud, "Is this...