Word: assoluta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dominant personality trait is the willingness to gamble. Ballerina Assoluta Natalia Makarova, who now makes about $300,000 a year from her dancing, took a great risk in defecting from the Kirov Ballet to perform in the alien world of Western ballet. But then Natasha, 36, has always been supremely confident of her talent. Recalling an old Russian proverb, she observes: "It is bad soldier who does not expect to be general...
Star Policy. Cynthia Gregory quitting dance? Rudolf Nureyev has called her America's prima ballerina assoluta. At 29, she is one of the most admired dancers of the present generation in the U.S.-or anywhere else. Inevitably, many dance enthusiasts wondered whether her sudden exit might be the beginning of a mass exodus that could cripple A.B.T...
Elizabeth Ashley left the New York stage slightly over a decade ago as a lovely ingenue. She returns, still ravishingly beautiful, as an actress assoluta. Her Maggie the Cat is sensuous, wily, febrile, gallant, and scorchingly Southern...
...soprano cannot always be prima donna assoluta, but Maria Callas, 49, does not stop behaving like one. With only three days to go before her first concert in eight years, Callas bowed out with an eye infection, plunging London Impresario Sandor Gorlinsky and 3,000 fans, some of whom had paid over ? 100 a ticket on the black market, into purgatorio. Before her vision clouded, however, Callas had seen Gorlinsky schedule her old archrival Soprano Renata Tebaldi, 51, for a London recital just 17 days after her own comeback...
Died. Mathilda Kschessinska, 99, prima ballerina assoluta of the Russian Imperial Ballet at the turn of the century and mistress of the Czarevich before he became Nicholas 11; in Paris. Isadora Duncan described her as "more like a lovely bird or butterfly than a human being," and Nijinsky tore at his costume in a jealous rage when she upstaged him in a 1911 performance of Swan Lake. Though regarded as a national heroine in Czarist Russia, Ksches-smska's close association with the royal family-she later married Nicholas' cousin Andre and became Princess Ro-manovsky-Krassinsky-made...