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DIED. Tamara Karsavina, 93, regal Russian ballerina who danced with the legendary Vaslav Nijinsky; in London. Karsavina first danced with the Maryinsky (now the Kirov) Ballet, then joined Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes for their first Paris season in 1909. A dancer of great beauty who made her every gesture expressive, she was often contrasted with her more classical colleague, Anna Pavlova. After the Russian Revolution she fled to England, where she became the country's best-loved dancer, appearing as a guest artist through the 1920s. She later worked with English Choreographer Frederick Ashton, advised Prima Ballerina...
...least one of the honoraries usually goes to a prominent figure in the arts. Dancer Martha Graham and pianist Arthur Rubinstein seem like good bets to pick up parchments...
...foregone conclusion that exiled Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, this year's Commencement speaker, will receive one of the valued parchments. So, most likely, will dancer Martha Graham and Boston Symphony conductor Seiji Ozawa...
...long meeting, and he'll stick firecrackers under the chairs at those endless sessions." NBC'S programmers know that whatever they do this month may be rescinded next month. "Does NBC'S fall schedule mean anything?" asks Adman Lou Dorkin, a senior vice president of Dancer Fitzgerald Sample. "That's the $64,000 question. I can't imagine any lineup they announce being taken very seriously until Silverman gets there...
...series on the air there are backups ready to go on whenever a rating dips. The pilots for these shows can cost as much as $600,000. For the upcoming season, the networks have funded 149 pilots, some of which are analyzed for its clients by the ad agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample. Excerpts...