Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about that point, one night last week, Sadler's Wells Star Margot Fonteyn ceased to be a ballerina and became the bird she intended to portray. The ballet: Firebird, dreamed up in 1910 for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes by the late, style-making Choreographer Michel Fokine and style-shaking Composer Igor Stravinsky...
...hunter, danced in last week's performance by handsome Michael Somes, wonderingly clutched his rare bird. Her movements were startled, quivering, with precipitous halts on one toe tip, her torso parallel to the ground, her other leg arrow-straight behind her. Three times she made a vicious break for freedom, three times she had her wild wings pinned by the hunter. At last, exhausted, she sagged in defeat, and as ransom, presented her captor with a gold feather. He set her free...
presents almost a savage bird of prey." But ex-Ballerina Tamara Karsavina, 70, who created the role in 1910 and had coached Fonteyn, recalled that Fokine himself had instructed her: "You are a bird of prey ... I want a mighty beat of wings, not graceful flutterings." As for New York City, both audience and critics loved the bird, down to the last feather...
Brooklyn Gets the Bird. Two years later, Casey was traded to Pittsburgh...
...expedition relied on the abundant and delicious, caribou, trout, and ptarmigan, a chicken-like bird, for food...