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...Right Bank bistro to nuzzle the night away, touching off a spate of speculation in the Parisian press that Brigitte might, for Sami, convert to Judaism. ∙ ∙ ∙ As Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, 52, told it to a select little clique gathered to watch the Bolshoi Ballet troupe at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan, his wife, Irina, is an in curable shutterbug, with a passion for sunsets. When she goes back to Russia she will have snapped sunsets in New York, sunsets in Chicago, sunsets in Los Angeles, sunsets in every U.S. city she has visited. Cracked...
...exit. "When," he asked, "will the next orgy begin?" He hardly had time to wait for an answer. The orgy began almost immediately, went on interminably, and inflicted on spectators perhaps the most tasteless evening ever endured at the Met. The occasion was the U.S. premiere of the Bolshoi Ballet's Spartacus, an extravaganza so preposterous it was hard to believe a professional dance company was responsible for it. The story dealt with Rome's slave revolt, as reported by Appian and Plutarch, and ended with the death of the slaves' leader, the gladiator Spartacus (once referred...
Spartacus was meant to be the Bolshoi's answer to critics who accused the dance group of being hidebound traditionalists...
Although it provoked some controversies when it was introduced in an earlier version in 1958, it gave Moscow audiences an unexpected glimpse of a gamy world and eventually proved to be the most successful and talked-about ballet the Bolshoi had introduced in a decade. But in Manhattan it looked more like an elephant preserved under glass...
...workers at home and another 28,000 around the world. But it is more than it seems to be. The Siemens reach extends from the Arctic. where its diesel engines drive icebreakers, to Saudi Arabia, where its engineers are setting up a huge communications network. Moscow's Bolshoi Theater is lighted by a Siemens electrical system: the phone calls of Indonesia's President Sukarno go through Siemens switchboards...