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...unveiled by the American Ballet Theater at Manhattan's Uris Theater, and it just might be the most important event of the dance year. With cinematic speed, the cast of characters tumbles around the stage to the sounds of Haydn's 82nd Symphony. Isn't that Buster Keaton? There's Joe Namath and a courtful of jokers, heroes and heroines all. Linked by sheer velocity, the steps merge in combinations that are silly and daring. Brises follow splat falls; dreamy waltzes erupt in staccato spasms of movement. With deadpan wit, 16 girls perform precise glisses while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: A Touch of Tharp | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...strike is a special dilemma for her. Cheered by liberals for the Post's role in exposing Watergate, she is now being attacked by some liberals as a union buster. "The union is to be smashed," wrote Post Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman last week. "Graham has accepted the pressmen's union's invitation to waltz back to the industrial warfare of the 19th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Right to Manage | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

Last January I decided I would spend my summer vacation on the Pacific coast pursuing the California Dream. My plans were far from concrete--maybe I would take a course at Berkeley, or write poetry, or just hang out in the East Bay with may buddy Buster, listening to Tower of Power and walking the streets. On June 3, my papers finished, my exams over, I packed up my Long Island-Middle Class-California Dream and hit the road west...

Author: By Eric E. Rofes, | Title: A Couple of Summers | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

When I got back to the city I called my friend Buster, who thought I'd vanished for two weeks. I told him to pick me up (I was at the Hearst house again) and not ask any questions. In twenty minutes he drove up in his V.W. and a meek, frightened sinner crawled into the front seat. I tried to explain my story to him but I was undergoing culture shock and was virtually incomprehensible. When we went out with his friends later I winced at four letter words and sexual allusions, couldn't converse sensibly, and was basically...

Author: By Eric E. Rofes, | Title: A Couple of Summers | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

When we went into the city the next day I ran into Moon people all over. They were all so friendly, so warm, and I was being tempted back to the farm. They made Buster and me promise to come to dinner at the Hearst House that evening. I was weak and confused; Buster was wise. He put me on the next bus heading east

Author: By Eric E. Rofes, | Title: A Couple of Summers | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

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