Word: baryshnikov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardcover, quarterly coffee-table sampler of art and high culture is coincidental. The new Horizon will be a soft-cover monthly as of September, and light-years more lively. Artist Andrew Wyeth's naked Virgin was the cover of the May issue, and Dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Christine Sarry are whooping it up on the next issue. Inside the magazine are heavily illustrated essays on such trendy topics as discothèques, women in film, a new "gymnastics fever" and photograph collecting. "We want to be the national journal of civilized urban life," says Editor Otto Fuerbringer...
...Robert Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) and Newscaster Charles Collingwood. Since then, Josephson has built I.C.M. into a $30 million-a-year multinational company, embracing agents, a concert-booking bureau and a TV station. His 2,250 clients include Actor Laurence Olivier, Playwright Tennessee Williams, Musician Isaac Stern and Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Josephson's empire has grown so vast that he now spends most of his time delegating and supervising, although he stitches together immensely complicated deals (current project: a sequel to Gone With the Wind). "His astuteness is with procedure, and he has an accounting machine in his head," says...
Margaux Hemingway was there, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Husband Mick and 150 or so other of Bianca Jogger's friends and loved ones. The occasion was her birthday (27 by her count, 32 by others), and Manhattan's Studio 54 discotheque was festooned with balloons and ballasted with artificial snow. A twin-towered, castle-shaped cake awaited Bianca, who pranced around on a white stallion. Said she: "It was the most marvelous party I have ever...
...straight from the ballet manual. Others have never been seen before: Misha's good-natured fanny squeeze-his own derrière-and a figure in which Yankee Doodle scoops up Sarry to ring the Liberty Bell. Compression and speed obscured some of the complexity of the choreography. Baryshnikov, as always, appeared to be dancing steps as they occurred to him. Occasionally Feld overreached. When the orchestra struck up a flourish reminiscent of the old Pathé newsreel finale, Baryshnikov lofted Sarry high in a grand one-handed Kirov lift. Majestically, he floated her on a cushion...
...circus of bravura set pieces, it may well join Le Corsaire, Don Quixote and similar pas de deux as staples of gala pro grams. Variations is bound to tempt other virtuoso pairs. There are two reasons, however, why it may not look quite the same: Christine Sarry and Mikhail Baryshnikov...