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...helpless girls molested each year in London. He, confronted by the fleshly reality of The Girl He Worships from Afar, is moved to confess: "I have often had a burning desire to nod." She, overcome by a rippling tendon in his forearm, is propelled into a swoony slow-motion ballet of plainly requitable passion...
LONDON PALLADIUM SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Fess Parker is host to some British vaudevillians as well as Dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Svetlana Beriosova of the Royal Ballet...
With two other women, she founded Everywoman's Village in Van Nuys, Calif. It consists of a grassless half-acre, six bungalows, and a staff of 15 teachers who give courses ranging from ballet, oil painting, psychology and foreign languages to exotica like yoga and flowered bead making. The classes are limited to 15, the atmosphere is totally informal and there are no grades. The school's aim is to be a link between the housewife and the university. "Most housewives are afraid to resume their education in a formal classroom," says Lynn, "because they feel threatened...
...Jacob's Pillow, near Lee, Mass., where Ted Shawn's dance festival features a cross section of ballet, modern and ethnic dance in a barnlike theater. Twelve new works will be seen...
Nothing to Chance. For all his discipline, Poussin was in no sense a stony prude or a bloodless geometrist. He reveled in depicting bacchanalia where swarthy satyrs lurched after alabaster-skinned nymphs, and chubby putti chugged wine as if it were rosy Pablum -all composed as carefully as a ballet. In his Rape of the Sabine Women (see opposite page), swords and outflung arms set up triangles that play a counterpoint against the squarish architecture. Nothing is left to chance, not even the suggestive but studied pas de deux of the Sabine maidens and their Roman abductors...