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...Carlos, and Kammermusik No. 2, composed by Paul Hindemith in 1924. The works are not masterpieces, but they show a couple of sides of Balanchine's genius: Kammermusik is a sophisticated display of how motion can illustrate music. Ballo is a bravura piece for his newest virtuoso, Merrill Ashley...
...shaped eyes glow as she remembers that morning. "He told me that a new ballet is like putting on a new coat. You have to move around in it awhile before it is comfortable." Not too long, however. Balanchine began with a structure for Ballo, but no steps. Says Ashley: "He wears these clunky shoes and does funny things with his feet. Then you move and he looks. My pas de deux took about an hour to work out, my variation a half-hour. Sometimes he would say, 'No one can do that step, so we will...
...Ashley claims that when Bell learned that he and Gravitt were planning to expose such practices, the company started investigating their private lives. Houston Psychiatrist Gary J. Byrd told the court two weeks ago that Bell had "harassed" Gravitt until he committed suicide. Ashley claims that a Bell vice president at Gravitt's funeral warned him not to join the dead man's family in a suit against the company, saying "You file that suit and the Bell employees will hound you to death. That son of a bitch [Gravitt] lies in the grave-you're next...
...Ashley, Bell claims that he was fired for joining with Gravitt to create fictional expense accounts and for forcing female employees to trade sex for promotions. On the witness stand, Ashley-who already has won 1 million suit against Southwestern Bell for tapping his phone-admitted falsifying expense forms but claimed he did so to cover up political payoffs. Said I didn't take one penny of Bell money for my use ever. I spent a lot of money on whiskey and a lot of money on politicians...
...affair seems an extreme case of office politics. "There were always rival factions within [Southwestern] Bell " says one insider. "When Angus Alston the chairman of the board, was dying of cancer in 1974, a new group came into power and wanted to get rid of their enemies, Gravitt and Ashley." Pat Maloney the flamboyant lawyer for Gravitt's widow, pointed to a Bell organization chart in the San Antonio courtroom; he accused Gravitt's successor, Chester L. Todd, of instigating the investigation that led to the executive's death only to get his job Asked Maloney: "That...