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...unerring sense of line, of precise and premeditated artistic construction that Degas went on to develop subtly underlies all of the forty-odd pieces of Degas sculpture now on exhibit at the Fogg. Except for a few interesting but unexceptional busts and one bas-relief, practicing ballet dancers, race horses and women bathers--mostly emerging from tubs or toweling themselves off--make up the entire collection. These subjects, which Degas studied repeatedly throughout his career, gave the artist the chance to display his mastery of anatomy and apply his taste for classical design...
...they also--particularly the dancers and the bathers--gave him leeway to play fast and loose with neo-classical conservatism. He tested the capacity of elegant design to withstand challenging poses. With the dancers, Degas takes on very difficult ballet postures and flirts wtih disequilibrium. With the bathers--and some of the horses--he plays the voyeur, catching his subjects in ungainly and at times vulgar contortions. Yet throughout his eye for "arabesque" (a term borrowed from dance, meaning "overall pattern of line") prevails, and his statuettes withstand his often perverse challenges. It is as if Degas wanted to tease...
...special, titled Where Do We Go from Here? (10 p.m. E.S.T.), an hour show that she describes as "a peek into the future of entertainment." A peek at MacLaine's future shows Shirley and Actress Anne Bancroft appearing this fall in The Turning Point, a movie about former ballet mates who reunite after 20 years. Says Shirley: "If I could only do one thing at a time, it would exhaust me. The way I am happiest is to do preferably four things, but certainly no less than two and a half...
...twice her age, but the match is perfect. Making an ABC-TV special are Olympic Champion Dorothy Hamill, 20, the ballerina of figure skaters, and the superbly athletic star of the New York City Ballet, Edward Villella, 40. To be shown March 2, the show is being filmed in Quebec as part of the city's Winter Carnival. In one spectacular sequence, Hamill and Villella appear to swirl and spin together on the frozen river below Le Cháteau Frontenac. During the filming, Hamill skated alone over mirrorlike black ice; then Villella pirouetted across a translucent sheet...
Already, from Ithaca, N.Y., to Evanston, Ill., from Kalamazoo, Mich., to Livermore, Calif., empty elementary and now high schools are being converted to make room for shops, restaurants, arts workshops, Headstart programs, day-care centers, concert halls, studios, ballet schools, adult classes, seminars for unwed mothers, vocational training and housing for the elderly. Young doctors trained as pediatricians or gynecologists are increasingly transferring to the lamentably neglected area of public health. The transformation from growthmania to a less-is-more society will demand greater adjustments and some painful decisions. Nevertheless, demographers point out, a controlled population will allow...