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Word: balletic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the Ford agency. "You just don't know." Before engaging in sex with a man, she dates him five or six times, and, in an effort to protect herself, asks for a complete sexual history and finally insists that he use a condom. O.J. Elledge, a former National Ballet of Canada dancer who is now a counselor to AIDS victims, has seen a "dramatic change in approach to sexuality" among performers. "There is a lot less playing around. It's not the way it once was." But Ty Granaroli, 27, a heterosexual corps de ballet dancer at American Ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Chill: Fear of AIDS | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...everything was beautiful at the ballet, though. Seven-ft. reserve Duke center Martin Nessley got most of his game-high 25 points just by being big. Of course, he was bigger than anyone else in the house, so maybe he deserved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silly Putty | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

...loved and a professional life he could no longer bear. A performer of electrifying excitement, "Misha" saw nothing but stagnation in the rigid Soviet system. In the U.S., however, his dreams have come true: he danced the gamut of Western choreography, now heads a major company, the American Ballet Theatre, and is making his third film, Giselle. His second movie, White Nights, tells the tale of an emigre star whose plane crashes in the Soviet Union, forcing him to outwit the KGB in a second flight to freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Siren Songs from Moscow | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Last week the seemingly unthinkable happened. In one of the most startling turns yet in Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign of glasnost (openness), Baryshnikov was asked to visit Moscow to dance with the Bolshoi Ballet. The invitation came from Yuri Grigorovich, the artistic director of the Bolshoi, who was in the U.S. to arrange a tour by the Soviet company, which has not been to the U.S. since 1979. Baryshnikov hesitated. "That's very nice," he reportedly answered. "But I'll have to think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Siren Songs from Moscow | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Peter Martins has proved there is life after Balanchine at City Ballet, not to mention fresh young talent and a thriving box office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

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