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...graced the stage as a sailor, a fawn, a prince, a cowboy and a Greek god. But if anything is going to keep New York City Ballet Star Edward Villella, 45, on his toes, it will be his current role as Visiting Artist at West Point. During one recent appearance on campus, Villella surveyed an aerobic dance class from the sidelines, then took the cadets through the same motions, ballet-style. "They were skeptical at first," says Edward, "but after a while everybody loosened up. Even the plebes were laughing...
...block of stone or a piece of metal appear totally lifeless. But scientists see a veritable cauldron of activity in the most passive-looking object. Its atoms and molecules are in constant motion, vibrating furiously, bumping into neighbors, reeling in every direction. Though imperceptible to human senses, this chaotic ballet is critically important. Not only does it determine the very nature of observed matter (what makes a stone a stone, for example), it controls what will happen when one substance is brought together with another...
...There are, of course, reasons beyond prudery for the resistance to explicit sex in mainstream movies. Film is still seen as a form of photography, and thus a medium of reporting: what you see is what there is, naked, without the novel's veils of metaphor or the ballet's screen of abstraction. Professional actors are neither trained nor eager to display themselves so ruthlessly for millions, and porno stars are unlikely to be convincing in a serious film's nonsex scenes. Audiences may have trouble shifting gears when a character they believe in suddenly impersonates...
...Rabbit Is Rich but has stopped, at least for a while. He retains an interest in skiing, although he finds "it gets increasingly scary, the stiffer I feel and the more fragile." Social life consists of a round of dinner parties and frequent trips to Boston to see friends, ballet...
...mildly; they thought we were the greatest thing ever born," says Meryl. The elder Streeps, now retired and living in Mystic, Conn., were forever taking Meryl and their two boys (Brother Dana, 28, is a bonds salesman who lives in New Jersey) to museums, the theater, the ballet and ball games. But Meryl had few friends, and as far as anyone knew only one asset, a "nice, light, coloratura voice." At twelve she began taking singing lessons in Manhattan with Voice Coach Estelle Liebling (and gradually became aware that the "nice lady who had the lesson before me" was Opera...