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...That’s Kevin Shee ’10, a self-proclaimed “Ballerino,” hailing from Sacramento, California. A former tap and jazz dancer, he began taking classes at age five and moved on to perform professionally with the Bay Area Peninsula Ballet Theatre when...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen and Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Showing 'Grace' Under Fire | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...What we are doing is not female impersonation," insists Primo Ballerino Bassae, 33, "it's a ballerina imitation. Nijinsky originally wanted to dance the Firebird so it's not something we discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Faux Pas | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...girls' svelte, springy figures attest, they watch their diets, eat healthier food, and probably take more exercise than any other women in the world. Louella Ballerino, a swimsuit designer for California's Rose Marie Reid, finds that German girls today tend to be skinnier of hip than young Americans and Italians. This "generation of fashion models," as one approving editor calls it, averages 5 ft. 6 in. in the 14-25 age bracket, one inch taller than other European girls, and it boasts unbeatable vital statistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Brunnhilde Reshaped | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...gallant flyweight, Death laid a bleak forefinger on the throat of Vincent ("Pepper") Martin, stopped his breath. Martin-a boring, windmill, hell-for-leather youth-first came to fame as a bantamweight, put on weight, entered the junior lightweight division. A fortnight ago he was beaten by Alike Ballerino, Junior Lightweight Champion. During the bout he whispered to his handlers that he had a pain in his chest. He was defeated, went to a hospital with pneumonia, was defeated again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

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