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...China in the 1960s she had imposed uplifting revolutionary themes on China's arts, she preferred sexy movies and Kung Fu flicks imported from the decadent West and from Hong Kong. For the millions of Chinese who have endured countless showings of Chiang Ch'ing's ballet, The Detachment of Red Women, on stage, screen and television, this might be the gravest of the charges against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Lady Is a Tramp | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...date he had in mind, someone "truthful, witty and eminently attractive," and Wagner seems to fill the bill. Says Wagner: "I'm trying like hell not to be Wonder Woman." Carter, 24, who is trying like hell to put that character across, is a former swimming champion and ballet student with the physical skills to do most of her own stunts. She is convinced the show has value because it "shows that women don't have to be unattractive to be independent." She, of course, has the hardest row to hoe-trying to humanize a cartoon character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Super Women | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

About five years ago it would have been difficult to believe that this description applied to John Klemmer's most recent albums. But Klemmer, the same John Klemmer who produced the revolutionary sounds of Waterfalls, is also the John Klemmer who has produced the sugary sweet sounds of Barefoot Ballet...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: For Three Days Boston Becomes The Jazz Capitol of the World | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

...babushkas and grey wool dresses we sense a merciless passion just ready to burst out. Explode it soon does, and smothers a cheeky, high-cheek boned arriviste named Lukasz Niepolomski. A Rudolph Nureyev double, he drools over her, duels over her and introduces her to a new brand of ballet...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: A Zhivago That Sizzles | 11/16/1976 | See Source »

...Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. His more recent achievements include writing the soundtracks for such films as Ken Russell's The Devils, Altman's Images and Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth. In addition, Yamashta has toured with and composed pieces for the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Ballet and a number of jazz-rock bands...

Author: By Margaret ANN Hamburg, | Title: Keep Going | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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