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...friends, six girls and six boys, who start to perform harmonious variations. These have a serenity and symmetry that recall court dancing. Baryshnikov's solos-some intricate, others almost blasting in their power-are threaded throughout. Like a young god, he summons up one girl (Lesley Collier) for himself. They dance divertissements that are like games. Baryshnikov is thrown high into the air. He lands, turns and gives the audience a shrug similar to the one Puck gives at the end of Ashton's The Dream. The rhapsody is over...
There are brief references to that masterpiece of innocence, The Sleeping Beauty: Collier might be Princess Aurora as she appears in the vision scene. Mostly, though, the ballet stays close to the music and its own fresh nature. That makes the gaudy, tacky costumes, designed by William Chappell, all the harder to understand. Baryshnikov has a golden garter and a necklace. The other men have little glitters sewn onto their tights. The women look less camped up, but they do wear quantities of rhinestones. The kindest conclusion is that it was all intended to convey some imaginary land where...
...those fields and others closely related, unemployment is indeed soaring. Michigan Budget Director Gerald Miller expects the jobless rate in his state to jump to 15% or 16% by next month. Says June Collier, president of National Industries, a Montgomery, Ala., firm that makes electrical equipment used by Ford and Chrysler: "In the next couple of months we can see the unemployment rate hitting the 15% mark...
Note: Barbie freaks will want to check the ultimate authority, The Collector's Encyclopedia of Barbie Dolls and Collectables, (Collier Books/Crown Publishers...
...almost nothing, and the private squirearchy he was establishing in Oxford, Miss., cost money. Hollywood offered him periodic stints of screen writing, and these paid some bills. The marketplace for short fiction provided another recourse. Luckily for Faulkner, at the time it was enormous: the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, American Mercury, American Magazine, This Week, Woman's Home Companion, Country Gentleman, Scribner's magazine. Faulkner received rejections from all of these journals, some now defunct, as well as from a few survivors like The New Yorker, but he also published enough to buy precious time...