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NUREYEV by Clive Barnes Helene Obolensky; 240 pages...
...stillness of photographs, Nureyev's animal vitality comes across in a rush of energy and sensuality. The dancer's fans will be bowled over by the 29 color and 146 black-and-white pictures, most of them previously unpublished, that illustrate this big, handsome book. Dance Critic Clive Barnes' chronicle charts the dancer's career back to its beginnings in the remote Bashkir Republic of the U.S.S.R., where, as a teenager, Rudi jumped and twirled in local folk dances. Battling the disapproval of his Tatar father, a Communist commissar, the youth made his way into Leningrad...
...producers complained. True, Merlin had been trying out in New York City since Dec. 10, but only because the show was too complicated to take out of town. Repairs were still going on. Demanded Rivera: "Would [the critics] come to Philadelphia? Because that's where we are!" Post Reviewer Clive Barnes concurred: "I personally deplore my colleague's decision. A musical my is not the same as a fire." Countered the New York Times 's Arts and Leisure editor William Honan: "Our responsibility is to our readers. When a show becomes a public event, a good newspaper ought to cover...
Although IBM does not offer a machine that compares with Lisa, that gap could be filled at any time. "I'd expect direct competition to Lisa before the end of the year," says Clive Smith of the Yankee group, a Boston-based consulting firm. Already one company, VisiCorp, has announced that it is developing a mouse system that will plug into an IBM PC and give it some of Lisa's capabilities at a lower price. Apple itself is working on a scaled-down version of Lisa called Mackintosh (a misspelling of the Mclntosh apple). Priced at about...
...Ever since he was a youngster in England, Clive Sinclair, 42, has had big thoughts about little things. At twelve, he built small mechanical calculators. At 22, after a brief stint as a science writer and editor specializing in home electronics, Sinclair and his wife Anne set up a mail order house selling transistors and later kits for miniradios no bigger than match boxes. In the 1970s he made one of the earliest pocket calculators with advanced mathematical functions, designed a pioneering, inexpensive digital wristwatch, and introduced a tiny TV with a 2-in. screen. Ahead of their time, none...