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...character who--with the sun and stars, the night, the desert sand, heartbeats and the drum's beat--has embroidered into the Southern California landscape around him an evolving vision of the Apocalypse. And in songs like "Jamaica Say You Will," "Our Lady of the Well," and "For a Dancer," Browne populated that world with hold-outs, who stand apart from, or at most knee-deep in, the main-stream as they await the Deluge which will "wash this planet clean like the Bible said." Hold-outs are not always female, nor is their chastity always physical; that particular earth...
DIED. Bobby Van, 47, lithe, light-footed dancer, comedian and actor in films, on television, and on Broadway, where he starred in the 1971 revival of No, No, Nanette with Ruby Keeler; of cancer; in Los Angeles. The son of vaudevillians, he started as a bandleader and trumpet player at Catskills resorts. One weekend he was asked to fill in for a missing act. "I ad-libbed some jokes," he recalled, "and when they ran out, I danced. After that Pop threw away my trumpet...
...Quixote before a packed Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and it was time for the orchestra to take a break. Helen Hagnes, 30, an attractive, blond, Canadian-born violinist told a friend that she was going to see Valery Panov, the Soviet-born choreographer and principal dancer for the Berlin Ballet, to ask him to pose for her sculptor husband, Janis Mintiks...
...harbinger of more disappointments. Going into the final rotation in the all-around competition, Comaneci was in sole possession of first place. She went to the uneven parallel bars, where she had scored back-to-back 10s in Montreal, and started her routine with glyptic precision and dancer's grace. Suddenly as she flew over the bar, she was unable to regain her grip and fell what seemed a dangerously long way to the mat. She resumed the exercise, receiving a 9.5 score, the maximum allowed after a fall. The Soviet women, who have dominated Olympic competition since...
DIED. Eddie Jackson, 84, gravel-voiced singer and comedian who wowed 'em in nightclubs and on TV shows, often in partnership with Jimmy Durante; in Los Angeles. The high-stepping Jackson's career first flourished during Prohibition, when he teamed with Durante and Dancer Lou Clayton in a famous horseplay-and-patter act that played Manhattan hotspots and speakeasies. He was celebrated as much for his rasping renditions of classics like Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? as for his mastery of the top hat-tipping dance form called strutting. "Nobody struts no more...