Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Southern Africa Solidarity Committee presents Sacco and Vanzetti, Friday and Saturday at 7:30, 10 in the Science Center. It'll cost you $1.50, but a) it's a great movie, and b) the money's going to a real good cause...
...center of the ultimate confrontation lay three figures: Martin, principal owner George Steinbrenner, and slugger Reggie "Reggae" Jackson. Last week Martin suspended Reggae for five days, after he ignored a coach's sign and bunted with two strikes on him in the tenth inning of a game against the Royals. Reggae insisted he was just trying to help the club; Martin insisted he was just trying to help himself, at everyone else's expense...
...windows of a rehearsal room at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, rows of little female heads glisten in the sun, their chins just making it up to the sill. They are lucky children, for they are watching New York City Ballet Choreographer George Balanchine rehearse his newest principal dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov. The session is long and hard, and it is going very well. Baryshnikov leaps into the whimsical salutes of Stars and Stripes. He and the choreographer pause to discuss some points, speaking in Russian-a common language for both. Later, Baryshnikov, 30, whips through a fast, intricate sequence from...
...that Baryshnikov would dance in with his new company in New York during June. It was probably a good idea to begin in the summer season at Saratoga Springs, for if there is any respite from the demands of superstardom, it can be found in this quiet, informal arts center. The performing area is a pavilion that seats 5,100 (many more people can see the action from some distance on the lawn). Saratogans take pride in their July visitors. Ask any shopkeeper, and he will tell you that the dancers and their fans are nicer than the horse-racing...
Misha's impact at the box office was immediate. Says Herbert Chesbrough, manager of the arts center: "There is a demand for tickets we literally don't have." The dancers are excited. One admits there is "healthy envy" among men who may have to wait longer to get certain roles. But, says another, "we haven't seen some of the moves he has. After he leaves the rehearsal room, the boys try them...