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...stressed that the meeting would be devoted to work. "This summit is primarily directed towards substance, not cosmetics," said the President. Nonetheless, on their first evening in Moscow, the President and Mrs. Nixon will be honored at a state dinner in the Kremlin. Later they will watch the Bolshoi Ballet, which will probably present one act each from Swan Lake and Giselle. The President may also visit Star City, the cosmonaut center near Moscow, or be flown to see an unmanned space shot at Baikonur in central Asia. More important, he will be accorded the privilege of making a short...
...music and lyrics are a pastiche of early '50s rock, rarely approaching the authentic inanity of the originals. But it is exquisite and excruciating in its details, from the boys' ducktail haircuts, leather jackets and cool, hang-loose slouches to the girls' cinch belts, nylon blouses, ballet slippers with white socks, pedal pushers and black gang jackets with their insignia, The Pink Ladies, pink-embroidered on their backs...
...games. The partying was so intense that UNCTAD's founding father, the noted Argentine economist Raul Prebisch, noticeably avoided the meeting, and one Belgian delegate went on a hunger strike in protest. The Chilean government had laid on a cultural program of symphony and folk music, ballet and theater-but had to cancel it after one week because of low attendance...
...Ashton disciple who is best known for his full-length Romeo and Juliet, and who succeeded his mentor in the fall of 1970. For the occasion, the company is sporting two new MacMillan pieces. Alas, together they lay two of the biggest eggs of the New York ballet season...
...Anastasia is an admirably ambitious but ultimately unconvincing full-length ballet about Tsar Nicholas II's youngest daughter Lynn Seymour who, by some accounts, escaped execution at the hands of the Bolsheviks and as Anna Anderson spent years unsuccessfully trying to prove that she was indeed the Grand Duchess Anastasia. The first two acts, using music by Tchaikovsky, pro vide a touching but repetitive romantic-ballet picture of Anastasia's life prior to the October revolution. The final act is a jarring change to a heavily psycho logical modern-dance style (set to a dreary electronic introduction...