Word: ballerina
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...with his mistress, the mother, Milagros (a "volatile" woman given to pricy shopping sprees after fights with her husband), travels to America with her emotionally troubled son Voltaire (who has a penchant for bringing home strangers ranging from "a man with a rat's face" to "a burned-out ballerina") and her troublemaking daughter Rocky. Though the book switches voices and perspectives, for the most part its focuses on Rocky. She is a pugnacious, tough-talking sort. She loses her virginity to a rock-'n'-roll rebel named Elvis Chang, co-founds a rock band with him named "The Gangster...
DIED. TAMARA TOUMANOVA, 77, one of George Balanchine's 1930s "baby ballerina" prodigies; in Santa Monica, California. During a long, prolific and internationally acclaimed career, she danced and collaborated with some of the century's greatest artists...
Behind him is a desk with a Power Mac. On the wall behind hang various posters--a Glee Club advertisement for Brahms' Requiem, a print from the Museum of Fine Arts, a painting of a ballerina by Degas...
...some, age is the advent of the encores. At 70, Russian ballerina MAYA PLISETSKAYA is still dancing (she just performed in New York City; next she's off to Spain). Age has dulled the athleticism that made her one of the Bolshoi's biggest draws (she liked to tap her head with her foot in mid-leap), but she's irrepressible. Plisetskaya told the New York Times, "I still feel the magic. If I have no more interest in dancing, I'll stop...
Renowned Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya returned from six years of self-exile to the Bolshoi Theater to celebrate her 70th birthday today. She resurrected her Swan Queen from Swan Lake, the role that first brought her international fame. Plisetskaya now lives in Germany where she continues to teach and perform...