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...Parisien Libéré, Rudolf Nureyev, 27, was "forever the prodigious dancer who left us breathless in 1961." That was the year when the temperamental Tartar also left two Soviet "bodyguards" breathless at Le Bourget Airport as he leaped away from the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet troupe to become the most spectacular male dancer in the West. After performing in Paris with Dame Margot Fonteyn at the Third International Dance Festival, Rudi had a sentimental look at his old Leningrad-Kirov comrades for the first time in four years, broke into wild applause from the audience as Compatriot Yuri Soloviev...
...fellow astronauts had just made the first manned rendezvous in space. Moving with exquisite precision across the night sky, the spacecraft Gemini 6 tracked down its partner, Gemini 7. As the two ships edged closer to fly in formation, then circle each other in a stately orbital ballet, Stafford and Command Pilot Wally Schirra joined Gemini 7's Lieut. Colonel Frank Borman and Commander James Lovell at the farthest reach of the fast-expanding age of space...
Tuesday, December 21 CHRISTMAS BALLET SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Nutcracker, a new ren dering in color, with dancers from the New York City Ballet, singers from the Stuttgart Opera and music from the Budapest Philharmonic. Eddie Albert narrates...
...gunbelt) and Cleopatra (with painted Egyptian necklace). In aloof stances around them are a lumpy, black, helmeted "Pussy Galore-type," a red, catlike woman with a yellow-feathered mask, and a green-robed priest. They posture like demented inmates in a psychosexual drama, dancers in a group-therapy ballet...
...effort, Putting Pants on Philip, made in 1926 under Supervising Director Leo Mc-Carey, with George Stevens as cameraman. Stan plays a kilted skirt-chaser, accompanied by shamefaced Ollie through shrewdly orchestrated slapstick etudes. From Soup to Nuts is a tiny masterpiece of physical comedy, as rigorously controlled as ballet in its step-by-step demolition of an elegant dinner party by two nincompoop waiters for whom a dog, a banana peel, three whipped-cream cakes, and a lady in a sliding tiara add up to disaster. The theme of tit-for-tat destruction, a comedy cliche raised to classic...