Word: balletic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picture Kirkland paints of the dance world is a dim one. In the New York City Ballet, dancers commit their bodies and hearts solely to their art. The late George Balanchine--the undeniable father of American ballet--insisted that his dancers be reed thin, without hips or breasts to detract from the line of the arms and legs...
Marriage and even love for anything except ballet was discouraged. No demand on the body was too harsh, no sacrifice to dance too great. It was Balanchine who first dominated Kirkland's world, and it is he who gave her special "vitamins" which allow her to dance while...
...Evening on the Town. For a swanky affair, treat your date to cocktails at the Ritz (15 Arlington), dinner at The Four Seasons (200 Boylston), and orchestra seats at the ballet. Total cost, including a nightcap of Dom Perignon...
...acres of land in New York's Westchester County, to look like Jefferson's Monticello. Far more painful, no doubt, was his decision to withdraw from the many prominent positions that had given him a measure of social status, including his posts as a trustee of the American Ballet Theater and finance director for the National Jewish Coalition. He canceled a $1.5 million grant to Princeton University, which a son attends. Boesky had often given lavishly to charities but irritated some fund raisers with his hard bargaining for control and recognition. "There are givers and users. He is a user...
Indeed, no other individual or duo has glided with such felicitous daring across frozen water. "It is the way they get from Point A to Point B," says Andris Toppe, their ballet master. "A lot of skaters will skate to A, do a little trick, then travel to B and do another trick. It's boring. But the way Jayne and Chris cover the distance is choreographed. You are never bored...