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...wears leotards and says "faggot." The scene in which this Lorelei reawakens the red-eared adolescent in Georgie is worth some study. They are alone; she reclines on black satin. She murmurs: "I was just wondering what would happen if in addition to dinner and the ballet tonight, we gave ourselves some of the ultimate pleasures? If we are at all enlightened, would either of us be any the worse off for it tomorrow?'' He answers that he would be. "For one thing,'' Georgie says, going on to mention two things, "my conscience would be wrecked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Flannel Mortarboard | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...Washington is also headquarters now for the American Ballet Theater, mainly a touring company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ballet: Time to Start Pushing | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...universal language. Masked and bearded for their roles, the actors show their youth only in their piping voices. They are prodigious acrobats. Li-Pu's groom does not scale an enemy wall; he vaults over it with a somersault. The soldiers' duels mate the formality of ballet with the split-second timing of a trapeze act. Girls make ribbons of cloth hiss, curl and swirl through the air like rainbow-colored py thons. The evening's most exquisite miming re-creates a boat trip upriver. Using only two paddles as props, the players sway and dip with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Chinese Fireworks | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...with an original modern dance by 28-year-old Norman Walker. It was arty, erotic, and somewhat constipated, centering on a noble youth who seemed to have trouble deciding in what direction his basic current flowed. It seemed to dazzle the audience, however, since the Repertoire Workshop's ballet scored higher ratings than its competition. NBC's The Virginian and ABC's Wagon Train. Philadelphia showed young actors in Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nationwide Workshop | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...than a storm at sea, he prefers to paint the glistening emptiness of the time when the tide has run out. There is activity in a Knaths painting, but it is contained in a marvelous calm: mood and movement flow, one from the other, as in a slow-motion ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mood & Wonder | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

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