Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Khrushchev, the proletarian, overflows with animal vigor, Bulganin exudes good manners 1;and a faint whiff of eau de cologne. Khrushchev's idea of fun is to strip off his shirt and wrestle with his colleagues; Bulganin's sport is fishing, and he loves ballet. "Dress Bulganin up in striped pants and a black coat, and he'd look at home in any European Parliament," says one Western diplomat. "Khrushchev in the same garb would still look what he isa tough proletarian...
...home-Jacob's Pillow, in the Berkshires near Lee, Mass., where he turned a weed-grown farm into the hub and Mecca of dancing in North America. Shawn introduced what he called "the apex of our achievement in presenting dancers at Jacob's Pillow," the Royal Danish Ballet. Then the Danes took over and proved...
There were only ten in the company, the sets were all but nonexistent, and the orchestra of the Royal Theater in Copenhagen had dwindled to an offstage piano. But the world's second oldest ballet (after France's L'Opéra) and Western Europe's second best (after Britain's Sadler's Wells) had no need of sounding brass or tinkling cymbal. Dancing a series of divertissements and set pieces from their repertory, they delighted packed houses of up-from-the-city balletomanes and matinee contingents from nearby girls' camps with...
...almost the same spot one night last week, helmeted members of the Garde Républicaine held seats for people of importance-British Ambassador Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov, ex-King Farouk. When they and some 8,000 others were seated, the production of ballet hit a height of splendor to satisfy a Medici...
...committee decided to go Berlioz one better and use ballet to dance out the love he did not put into words. The old Marquis de Cuevas, 70, the world's biggest-spending balletomane, agreed to contribute his own ballet company to the project; the chorus and orchestra of the Concerts Colonne were engaged to work under Conductor Jean Martinon. The Louvre authorities, fearful of fire, were tougher to persuade: they held out for a full month, until the committee guaranteed to fireproof the outdoor stage, to station a fire truck at the entrance and a fireboat alongside...