Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critic was reminded of the Rockettes in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. The parade-drilled precision is there, and so is the box-office pull. Next week the Moiseyev will give Americans their first close look at a major Soviet dance company. For a color preview of what Russian dance looks like when it is not poised on pointe, see Music, Soviet Pop Ballet. r RAGGED down by the auto indus-'-' try's slump, Detroit is the most recession-battered big city in the U.S. What worries thoughtful Detroiters even more than the current acute...
...cognac way of life-and managed to stay in the pink in Russia, where caviar cost $1.35 a portion, cognac up to $2.25 a snifter. He wears custom-made suits from London and monogrammed shirts from Paris (though they do nothing for his built-in rumples). Asked his favorite color, Gunther beams: "Smoked salmon-Prunier's, of course, not Reuben's." Nor would Host Gunther dream of serving domestic champagne at his massive parties. For one gala, co-hosted at the Gun-thers' house by Claude Philippe of the Waldorf, liveried footmen carried scrolls to invite...
...breezy, peasant-sturdy Moiseyev Dancers will perform at least a dozen works in the U.S. (see color pages). Most of them are characterized by parade-drilled precision in the mass movements and a kind of frenzied kinetic attack that fills the air with flying forms and blurs the stage with color. The group's most popular number is a satire on Russia's favorite sport, entitled Soccer; in a dazzling mixture of mime, dance and spring-legged acrobatics, the work defines the brawling progress of a match, from the opening whistle to a spectacular save at the goal...
...deference to this home-cooking atmosphere, the club bans off-color acts, hustles drunks out of sight. On week nights groups of 20 or more who want to dance, munch steerburgers, and watch the show from left field, can get out of the Town & Country on a package deal for as little as $3 apiece. But. depending on the attraction, the minimum can also run to $6.50 a head, and there may be as many as 4,500 customers a night (the crowd is politely asked to leave after the first show to make room for the second shift). With...
...years as five-day-a-week afternoon fare, NBC's live hour-long Matinee Theater, the only daytime color TV show on any network, has launched dozens of new writers and a score of directors, given more roles to actors than MGM. Among its 29 tons of scripts, the show has adapted worthy works ranging from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. As a sheer piece of logistics, it has piled up phenomenal records: it has used 15,243 costumes, 4,203 settings, 210,103 props, and 9,035 gallons of coffee to keep the casts and crews rolling...