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...Isere, France (for a mere $4,325, not including travel and accommodations)? For the price of an airline ticket to California, plus board and meals, plus $115,000, the gift recipient can take ten private swimming lessons with Mark Spitz. Want to be the best dancer at the country club? Mitzi Gaynor will dedicate a whole day of terpsichorean tutoring...
After Maria Gambarelli had her arthritic right hip joint repaired in 1961, she was so incapacitated that her career as a ballet dancer and teacher came to a halt. But last year she underwent a hip-joint replacement to correct the problems that persisted after the first operation. Since then she has recovered so completely that she has taken up teaching ballet again. Last week, at a Manhattan news conference, she demonstrated her renewed ability to perform classical ballet movements. "I feel like a marvelous car," she said. "They have put in a new part, and I am like...
...loathing for the United Nations and accept an assignment last year as U.S. representative on the U.N. Human Rights Committee? "Pure undiluted Walter Mittyism" seized him, Buckley confesses. Single-handed he would hold the world body spellbound as he read from Solzhenitsyn or pleaded the case for Ballet Dancer Valéry Panov. He would cajole, mesmerize, seduce, intimidate the delegates. The soaring Buckley vision of man's rights, in fact, might "repristinate" the jaded international bureaucracy...
...geometrically muscular figurehead of this phenomenon was Bruce Lee, who fought with the grace of a ballet dancer and the contained fury of a one-man guerrilla army. His hands were like wedges, his feet flew like blades. With his flashing skill, though, came an edge of self-deprecation. He was sure enough of his own power to be casual about it. That quality made him not only indomitable but affable-a surefire combination for those who prefer their super-heroes to be approachable...
Bend and Stretch. The Manhattan telephone directory lists 27 yoga instruction centers. One of the most attractive yoga studios is a converted loft organized by Dick Shea, 35, a sometime naval frogman, demolition expert and dancer, and Alan Levy, also 35 and a licensed chiropractor. Patrons come in for an average half-hour twice a week, to bend and stretch, arch their backs, swing their pelvises and breathe deeply, all at their own speed. They find that unlike conventional calisthenics, which tend to be exhausting, yoga renews their energy...