Word: ballerina
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...awkward nostalgia Limelight elicits stems partly from its semi-autobiographical stance. Chaplin plays Calvero, an old vaudeville comedian who drinks too much and can't find work. He rescues a suicidal young ballerina (Claire Bloom) and infuses her with his life energy and accumulated wisdom. She becomes a great star; she falls in love with him; he dies...
...that they suffer from feelings of guilt and shame when their personal aspirations conflict with their loyalty to the kibbutz. Those who resolve the conflict sufficiently to ask for permission to study outside may run into resistance. "If a girl's heart's desire to become a ballerina is not just a whim, and if she is talented, then she will get ballet lessons," says Asher Golan of Givat Haim. "The final decision is up to the general membership...
...these years Bing and his Russian wife Nina, a former ballerina, have lived in the Essex House on fashionable Central Park South. Although, he says, "I did not live in New York really; I lived at the opera house. Sunday, when the house was dark, I usually stayed in bed." Now 70 and still a British subject (knighted by the Queen in 1970), he plans to stay on in New York for the time being as "Distinguished Professor" at Brooklyn College (salary: $36,275; at the Met he earned $100,000), giving two courses in opera management. At the last...
...also won the gold and bronze medals in the women's all-round individual. That came as no surprise; the Soviets had dominated women's gymnastic events since they began Olympic competition. Winner of the individual was Ludmilla Tourischeva, 19, a solemn, dark-haired beauty who enjoys virtual prima-ballerina status in the Soviet Union. Executing such complicated maneuvers as 360° swings and somersaults underneath the uneven bars, Tourischeva outpointed the D.D.R.'s Janz and Teammate Tamara Lazakovich...
...danced the role of Albrecht, which had become identified with the elegant and stylish Erik Bruhn before his retirement in January. During rehearsals, Bortoluzzi so shook up his colleagues with his arrogant bearing and exuberantly melodramatic interpretation that the ballet master threatened to walk out. At the first performance, Ballerina Carla Fracci, the Giselle and a longtime partner of Bruhn, kept whispering instructions to Bortoluzzi-where to put his feet, how to move his hands. Hissed Bortoluzzi: "If you don't stop, I'll drop you." By the second performance Fracci had decided it was "exciting to work...