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...hits him on the blind side. In the past few years an interesting though not always persuasive variation has become popular with U.S. Congressmen: the alcoholic-deflective approach. Actually, it amounts to a plea of temporary insanity. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills began behaving strangely in public with an exotic dancer called the Argentine Firecracker. When he recovered himself for a moment, he told his constituents it all came from drinking champagne with foreigners. But then he landed with the Fire cracker at Washington's Tidal Basin in the middle of the night. Mills got hold of himself, acknowledged...
...that opening night back in Washington, Kirkland's place was taken by Susan Jaffe, a corps member who was then just 18. Jaffe has an exceptional natural facility as a dancer and an exotic, sexy quality. She was hailed as a Cinderella, but if that is so, then A.B.T.'s lineup is full of them. In the next weeks, Cheryl Yeager, 23, took on several lead roles. Small, with a light, high jump, she is a sprite to Jaffe's vamp. Among the male dancers, Peter Fonseca, 23, shows a bounding attack as the Boy in Green...
...result was about as Russian as apple pie. In From Sea to Shining Sea, Taylor's 1965 send-up of American life, Baryshnikov played an office worker and George Washington, while Nureyev portrayed a workman and a Brando-like waterfront tough. During a pas de trois romp with Dancer Gwen Verdon, they hoisted her up onto their shoulders, then discovered that she was facing away from the audience. Said Nureyev: "The great thing about America is that you can laugh at yourself when things go wrong. In Russia...
...ballet, elevation means the height of a dancer's leap and seeming suspension in the air. In a musical comedy, elevation could mean a playgoer's inner leap for joy while suspended in an evening of sheer pleasure. Except for Lauren Bacall, Woman of the Year is a show of hazardously low elevation...
...1950s Joe McCarthy backs down at outcry of millions dirty old men over subpoena of Sally Rand Bubble Dancer...