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There are, perhaps forgivably, some dancers who eventually come to view the show about as charitably as a harpsichordist girding for his umpty-umpth Messiah. A child might think it sheer bliss to be able to perform The Waltz of the Snowflakes. Says Vassilie Trunoff, ballet master of the London Festival Ballet: "I call it The Dance of the Cornflakes' because we've got corns on our feet from dancing it so often." There are few major dancers or choreographers whose careers have not crossed that of Herr Drosselmeyer, Marie (or Clara, as she is sometimes known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Tis the Nutcracker Season | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Benign that promises a heaven's bliss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

Envisions bliss renewed (O world of vain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

...those unjaded souls who like to celebrate New Year's Eve in style the ultimate in bibulous, bubbly bliss will be made possible this Dec. 31 by the su- personic Concorde. Bacchanals will be able to toast in 1977 at three strokes of midnight-in Paris, above the Atlantic and in Washington. They will get ready for their triple tipple by flying the Air France SST from Washington to Paris the night of Dec. 29. The celebration will begin with the first three courses of a New Year's Eve dinner at the Inter-Continental Hotel, followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Happy, Happy, Happy | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...courtship of Polly Peabody, who was not only several years his senior, but married to the alcoholic son of another of Boston's best families. Harry succeeded in persuading Polly, whom he later renamed Caresse, to divorce Peabody, and wooed her for himself with promises of the bliss of dying together...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: Epitaph For the Sun | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

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