Word: ballerina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Moira Shearer, 26, red-haired ballerina (Tales of Hoffmann), and Ludovic Kennedy, 32, wartime Royal Navy lieutenant, author and onetime college librarian: their first child, a daughter; in London. Weight...
...sort of cheerful rowdiness that has been rare in the U.S. since the days of the silent movies' Keystone Comedies. Lucille submits enthusiastically to being hit with pies; she falls over furniture, gets locked in home freezers, is chased by knife-wielding fanatics. Tricked out as a ballerina or a Hindu maharanee or a toothless hillbilly, she takes her assorted lumps and pratfalls with unflagging zest and good humor. Her mobile, rubbery face reflects a limitless variety of emotions, from maniacal pleasure to sepulchral gloom. Even on a flickering, pallid TV screen, her wide-set saucer eyes beam with...
...York's City Ballet captured its share of applause on its first Paris visit too. After Swan Lake, Ballerina Maria Tallchief had to take eight curtain calls; so did Nora Kaye after The Cage. The audience at the Opera refused to go home until George Balanchine himself came out for a bow. Total curtain calls...
...dancing was almost always good, but it was seldom exciting. Australian-born Elaine Fifield, sometimes touted as the heiress apparent to the senior ballet's Margot Fonteyn, showed off flawless timing and technique. But at 21 she lacks the fire, brilliance and riveting personality that distinguish a prima ballerina from a principal dancer. Lithuanian-born Co-Star Svetlana Beriosova had elegance and style, but not the breathtaking precision of either Fonteyn or the New York City Ballet's Maria Tallchief. The male dancers were strong, but none yet looked like another Eglevsky (New York City Ballet) or another...
...brain was storming. "I didn't see how I could be in the right mood." But as soon as she was off, her nerves and muscles took over. Given the favorite No. 4 starting position, she swooped down the tricky course with the easy grace of a prima ballerina. As usual, she looked as if she were loafing, even as she made a final flick with her ski pole to break the electric-eye photo timer at the finish. But the knowing crowd, recognizing speed when they saw it, cheered her effortless descent, cheered again as she fell into...