Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come here and you find there's theatre, there's ballet, there's so many other things that you can't have back home. But at the same time you have so many benefits. Growing up on an island, there are so many advantages...
Sheedy was a bright, well-organized and lucky child who danced with the American Ballet Theater in Manhattan when she was six. At twelve she wrote and, with the help of her mother, a literary agent, sold a children's book called She Was Nice to Mice. At 14 she began acting lessons and a few years later moved on her own to Los Angeles. After a short time in the minors (McDonald's and Pizza Hut commercials) she landed a role in a daytime TV special. She is anything but a gaga post-teen now, though she is counted...
BRITAIN. Radiation fears led members of the London Festival Ballet, a leading British dance company, to vote unanimously to cancel a spring tour of the Soviet Union. The three-week visit would have been the first by a British dance troupe in 25 years. A government unit that monitors radiation reported that "it is perfectly safe to drink milk or tap water, and there is no need to take iodine tablets." Still, whiskymakers in Scotland fretted that concerns about radioactive water could damage sales. Said Alan Rutherford, a water-research officer for Scottish malt distillers: "We take water from lochs...
...introduced to Director Roman Polanski, who casts her in his new film, Pirates. Next, she beats out 500 other girls for a coveted part in the upcoming Eddie Murphy comedy Golden Child. Then gossip columnists report that Charlotte Lewis, 18, once linked with Polanski, is now seeing Ballet Star Mikhail Baryshnikov, but the lady describes both men as "just good friends." Sorry, folks, a script it's not. She says that it is all true, and why not believe her? Lewis is delightfully candid and seemingly unaffected by her promising career. "I don't think I knew anything about...
...Ballet Folkorico de Aztlan will perform a sword dance Sunday. Mask making, tie-dying, and drum shows are also scheduled. The musical lineup includes a "jazz jam session," an "evening of romantic music," individual piano performances, and other group performances...