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...from overwashing. "You never think you're clean enough," he says. Since friction can trigger a recurrence, tight jeans, the uniform of the sexual revolution, are out. Men switch from jockey to boxer shorts, and women often give up wearing panties or pantyhose. One New York woman, a ballet dancer by avocation, could not dance for a year because tights and leotards were too painful...
...duty as artistic director of the American Ballet Theater. But last week at the 19th century Teatro Nuovo at Spoleto, Italy, "Misha" returned to his airborne artistry, performing with elan in Other Dances, a new work by Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63. As for speculation that his turn as a dancer is almost over, "That 'almost' can mean a lot of things," says Baryshnikov. "Meanwhile, I go on dancing...
...country to civilian rule. Within a month, Perón returned to live in Argentina and was re-elected President three months later. Perón died in July 1974, leaving power in the hands of his third wife, Maria Estela Martinez de Perón, a former cabaret dancer. "Isabelita," as she was known, was unable to reduce Argentina's terrorism or its hyperinflation, and the country's increasingly impatient generals overthrew her in March...
...very short girls (Stacy Caddell and Nichol Hlinka), in which the arms are usually joined but the steps are almost never the same. Taras produced, as usual, a well-made piece (Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments) notable mostly for its near veneration of Kyra Nichols, a young dancer whose purity, both in technique and presence, stands in eloquent contrast to the pushy, hard attack that Stravinsky can easily inspire...
Still, Tune was forced to admit that with his body he would never make it as a ballet dancer, and he began looking in the direction of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly rather than Nijinsky. When he saw a local production of The King and I, he narrowed his sights still further-to Broadway. He studied drama at the University of Texas at Austin and after graduating in 1961 turned north toward Times Square. He missed out on several parts because of his height, but finally got into the chorus of Irma La Douce. Some of the other shows...