Word: babil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris last week, even without music, Choreographer David Lichine's ballet The Creation, danced by the Ballets des Champs-Elysées, was the kind of new sensation that Parisians save their loudest bravos for.* Part of the cheers were for France's best male dancer, Jean Babilée-and a new star The Creation had created overnight: 17-year-old, almond-eyed Leslie Caron, a half American, half French girl who had never even seen a ballet until after the war. (Leslie's mother, Margaret Petit, once danced in New York...