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...fact, his manner and his voice were basic to his success, creating an illusion of ordinariness. This was not unplanned. Nothing in the use of his only instrument -- himself -- ever was. A cool calculator of effects, a steely perfectionist in execution, he always affected astonishment over adulation. As Mikhail Baryshnikov said, Astaire often seemed to stand wryly outside himself, observing his work as wonderingly as anyone else...
...adenoids around the Gershwin ballad Soon, and Madeline Kahn, Maureen McGovern and Julia Migenes ganged up gorgeously on Someone to Watch Over Me. Last week's gala tribute to George and Ira at the Brooklyn Academy of Music provided a pretty fine evening of dance as well, with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Harold Nicholas, Gregg Burge and the Mutt-and-Jeff tandem of Tommy Tune and Drew Barrymore finding new steps for some unforgettable old melodies. Nor would anyone think of shooting the piano players. Michael Tilson Thomas opened with Rhapsody in Blue. Later Leonard Bernstein brought a furious solemnity to Gershwin...
BEFORE the show, Man of the Year Baryshnikov looked awkward and uncomfortable as the Pudding producers joked with him before...
...Since Baryshnikov and other defectors have been reviled in the press as traitors, Gorbachev risks alienating conservative officials by inviting them back. But the Soviet leader is apparently counting on strong public backing to offset any such problems...
...like Baryshnikov and Aksyonov, explains Dimitri Simes, a Soviet specialist in Washington, "are the idols of popular Soviet culture. Their return would be an enormous political victory for Gorbachev...