Word: ballerinas
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...present company's 55 dancers are competent, and some are first-rate. Lupe Serrano was a dazzling, feather-light prima ballerina in the "Black Swan" pas de deux, Sallie Wilson was a dreamy and hungry psyche trapped in Sargasso's sea of weeds, Toni Lander's split leaps in Etudes were electric, and Veronika Mlakar in Giselle made a Queen of the Willis of intense malevolence. Royes Fernandez is the company's able, and sometimes distinguished premier danseur, and young Bruce Marks has the extra ebullience that sets off a star from the corps...
...Abyss, a tale of rape and lost innocence eloquently danced by Lone Isaksen, a young Danish girl who sticks out as the troupe's most promising soloist; Alley's Ariadne, highlighted by a fearsome battle between Theseus and a horde of minotaurs. Tradition was provided by Prima Ballerina Marjorie Tallchief (Skibine's wife and sister of the New York City Ballet's Maria Tallchief) and the famed Danish dancer Erik Bruhn as guest artist...
...Like a Ballerina. One area made mercilessly vulnerable by the computer is that of U.S. business management. The computer has proved that many management decisions are routine and repetitive and can be handled nicely by a machine. Result: many of the middle management jobs of today will go to computers that can do just about everything but make a pass at a secretary. As much as anything else, the computer is of great value to big business because it forces executives to take a hard, logical look at their own function and their company's way of doing business...
...social psychologist at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. "They will have established a relationship with their machines that cannot be shared with the average man. Those with talent for the work will have to develop it from childhood and will be trained as intensively as the classical ballerina...
...rapturous audience, including Princess Margaret, called Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 45, and her costar, Rudolf Nureyev, back for 43 curtain calls after the London première of the Royal Ballet's new production of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. The love story backstage was more poignant than Shakespeare's tale. In the wings, from his stretcher, Fonteyn's husband, Panamanian Politician Roberto Arias, 46, watched, still paralyzed from the chest down by the bullets pumped into his spine by a frustrated office seeker in Panama last June...