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...What Underwear!" Communists even show a certain pride in genteel Chekhovian shabbiness. Restaurant tablecloths are almost always slightly soiled, but clean oilcloth is distinctly nekulturny. Hotel maids may forget to remove dead cockroaches, but they never fail to dust the chandelier and the grand piano. Only at the ballet does the Russian's old love of flashing hues and sumptuous textures seem to come into its own. Even women's underwear at lingerie counters is coarse and drab, prompting a visiting French Communist's classic comment: "What under wear! Yet what a birth rate...
...conspire to perform a program of substantial modern music that deserves their skills. Directed by Leon Kirchner, musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and from Harvard gave the first Boston performance of Kirchner's Concerto for Violin, Cello, 10 Winds, and Percussion, and a concert reading of Stravinsky's ballet, Les Noces...
Straight Up. To work off excess poundage, Duffy ordered regular doses of roadwork, weight lifting (25 squats with 250 Ibs.), wind sprints and calisthenics. To improve Thomas' coordination, he suggested ballet lessons, and John even wangled a scholarship to the Boston Conservatory of Music. In practice sessions, Duffy heckled Thomas unmercifully. "Come on, you're going to work, work, really work," he bellowed. "You've got that bar too low. Put it up to six-nine. You've got to go up straight, John, up straight. Don't let your leg stay up there...
They were some of the strangest creatures ever to cavort upon a stage, those ballerinas in George Balanchine's 1946 ballet, The Four Temperaments. Swaddled with shreds of drapery, bodices bandaged with ribbons, they seemed like cats' playthings, a ragpicker's delight, a macabre masquerade of Martians. Only a slippered leg or two revealed that they were real live dancers, panoplied in fantastic dress by Surrealist Kurt Seligmann. But it was natural that Seligmann would design costumes for diversion. His art always cloaked anatomy in fanciful clothes. In costume design or painting, he could easily subtract...
...niece of the great art dealer Georges Wildenstein, and no longer had to run with the pack. Just before World War II, Seligmann, a gentle, elegant, bookish man, emigrated to the U.S., where he and his wife lived on a roomy farm near Sugar Loaf, N.Y. He designed ballet costumes and scenery occasionally, painted steadily, and grew increasingly interested in black magic. He acquired a 300-volume library of occult literature. He even wrote an extensive survey of wizardry, Mirror of Magic, and admitted that his paintings were often a reflection of it. "I have interpreted them...