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...Rumanian Folk Ballet, performing in Washington, D.C., danced even less: 13 of their 19 numbers were vocal or orchestral. The dancers traded on speed, unflagging vigor and, as a handout from the Rumanian Embassy advised, smiles that "always blossom on the cheeks of our people." In a spectacular number, The Forest Mountains, the men reeled off a series of backward somersaults over the shoulders of their girl partners, falling on the stage and twitching furiously, then leaping up for the thigh-slapping routine. For a finale, a panpiper let loose with a spirited version of Yankee Doodle, which brought smiles...
...insists on an unheard-of three weeks' rehearsal for a 90-minute play. To achieve the "first-night feeling" of a Broadway opening, he shoots the play in sequence-an expensive indulgence no Hollywood studio can afford. Under Schaefer's hothouse treatment, actors blossom. Says Schaefer: "They know they're not going to be cut up into little pieces and put back together again at the laboratory...
Friday, November 19 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). 'The Cherry Blossom Affair." A Japanese film producer helps Solo and Illya search for a new Thrush device that is designed to frighten countries prone to volcanic eruptions. Color...
...Modern Blossom. By all the logic of art movements, the dinner should have been a wake. Abstract expressionism has been declared dead; pop and op are up. Yet here was an artist who had painted along with Pollock, Kline, Gottlieb and DeKooning, who had been among the most articulate defenders of the faith and who was now at last having his big moment. On hand for the occasion were such oldtimers as Mark Rothko and Philip Guston to give Motherwell, now 50, a bear hug for his success...
...passionate allegiance was not to American art or to any national act, but that there was such a thing as modern art; that it was essentially international in character, that it was the greatest painting adventure of our time, that we wished to plant it here, that it would blossom in its own way." The walls were breached when abstract expressionism took roots as the first U.S. art movement with international repercussions. "Since then," he muses, "I and my colleagues have been having our own odyssey, returning to our own Penelopes and Ithacas...