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Lazy Little Toss. "The kids are a little bored knocking each other around," said Wisconsin's Coach Milt Bruhn. "They know there's a job to be done, and they're anxious to get to it." At the kickoff, Wisconsin was a three-point favorite. But U.S.C. swiftly made the point spread seem ridiculous...
Nijinsky & James Dean. In London and on the Continent, the only classical male dancer who can match Nureyev's popularity is Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Pale, hollow-cheeked and shaggy-haired, Nureyev radiates a kind of savage excitement that he himself describes as a "mixture of tenderness and brutality." It has prompted comparisons with Nijinsky and even with the late actor James Dean, hero of the beatniks. Unfortunately for the Royal Ballet, Nureyev is like Dean in another respect: he is as complex and difficult an animal offstage as he is on. After giving a superb performance opposite...
Cook, Carla Fracci, Eric Bruhn, Martyn...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Guitarist Andres Segovia and Dancers Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn appear with the Bell Telephone Orchestra. Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Spotlight on the top news story of the week...
...Bruhn soars ever closer to his apogee, he spends restless nights reviewing roles in his mind. He has surprisingly little of the vanity that goads most performers; he does not want audiences to pay, he says, "only to see me jump." Furthermore, he would rather "be bad in a good ballet than be great in a bad ballet." But to be great in a good ballet? To do it, says Erik Bruhn, "it is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen...