Word: balletically
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...green-eyed brunette had scored high in the swimsuit competition. She had received repeated ovations during her talent program, a ballet set to the religious pop anthem Via Dolorosa. But it was during the beauty contest's final, brief Q&A that Miss Alabama, 21, performed her most moving feat. She answered a question. Her voice was a bit fluty and her consonants soft, but the college junior clearly understood Regis Philbin's query about self- realization; and her reply, a paean to belief in oneself, was obviously deeply felt. Minutes later, when Heather Whitestone, who is deaf...
There is no greater miracle in all of biology than the nine-month journey that begins with a fertilized egg and culminates in the birth of a tiny human being. From the moment the egg and sperm unite, an ancient and astonishingly intricate ballet unfolds. The still microscopic sphere divides into two, then four, then eight parts. Soon after, individual cells begin an extraordinary trek across this globe of living matter. Some dive deep into the core, where < they give rise to the intestinal tract. Others bunch along the surface, forming a hollow tube -- one end of which buds into...
...savvy insurance nurse who tries to set Jeffries' mind straight about Lisa, and Raymond Burr as the sinister murder suspect, Mr. Lars Thorwald. Stella quips after she removes the thermometer from Jeffries' mouth, "You've got a hormone deficiency...Those bathing beauties you've been watching ["Miss Torso," the ballet dancer across the courtyard who flits around in her brassiere and panties] haven't raised your temperature in a month," When Jeffries continues to debate with her about marrying Lisa, Stella responds, "Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence...
...were heady accomplishments for someone in his early 20s, but Kirstein's greatest coup lay a few years ahead, in 1933, when he persuaded choreographer George Balanchine to come to America. The brilliant Russian emigre and the well-heeled native son built up what became the New York City Ballet, in its prime the most influential dance company on earth...
...first seem peculiar that Kirstein's autobiography, Mosaic (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 270 pages; $25), concludes just prior to his successful approach to Balanchine. But he has written other books (Portrait of Mr. B, Thirty Years: The New York City Ballet) about their long collaboration. This time the author, 87, tries to recapture the influences and experiences that led him to Balanchine in the first place...