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...black ghetto are spreading into decaying white neighborhoods, and unemployment is high among the city's Latinos and blacks. Yet Grand Rapids also boasts cultural accouterments that would be the envy of many a larger city: a fine symphony orchestra, directed by Spanish-born Theo Alcantara, a ballet troupe and a civic theater. Jerry and Betty Ford buy season tickets, but they are used by his half brothers, Jim, an optometrist, and Richard, who works as manager for the Ford Paint and Varnish Co., which the Ford family sold to Standard Detroit Paint...
...writer's anti-communist rhetoric was motivated less by reason than by sheer emotion and petty frustration. Mea Culpa, for example, was partly a virulent response to the rejection of Celine's script for a ballet by the Marinski Theater in Leningrad, although his failure as a choreographer and scenarist never enters into the pamphlet. A similar flopped attempt at film writing in Hollywood set his anti-semitism ludicrously into gear: "The Hollywood Jews ... know what a pretty girl is. Ah Goldwyn Mayer! I would have given ten years of my life to sit for one moment in their armchairs...
Well, among other things, there is a geriatric gang bang, a ballet stressing the sexual symbolism of motorcycles, and a sketch about a young man's sexual initiation into a jaded Restoration court where the male courtiers are equipped with waving phalluses...
...older but better," boasted spry Choreographer George Balanchine, 72, after arriving in Paris for the first visit in eleven years by his New York City Ballet company. Accompanied by prodigal Ballerina Suzanne Farrell, 31, who had rejoined the Balanchine troupe after a 4½-year stint with the Bejart ballet in Brussels, the dance master made a trip to the jewelry shop of Van Cleef & Arpels. The reason: Balanchine's dazzling ballet Jewels, which had its French premiere last week, had been inspired 15 years ago by Claude Arpels, president of the jewelry company's Fifth Avenue branch...
...four really fine dancers of Tanz-Forum, given leads in this work: Heide Tegeder (by far the best of the company), James Saunders, Svenbjorg Alexanders, and Ralf Harster. (Michael Molnar, an impressive statue, is too tight when asked to move.) The company's affinity for this ballet, however, goes beyond good dancing by the leads. Morrice's analysis of a creation manipulated by the forces of a consciousness (represented by the dancers), where spontaneity is possible for only an instant before everything dissolves into the confusion of introspection, is the perfect vehicle for the Forum, whose three works demonstrated their...