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...from the filmed ballet, Romco and Juliet, to the television tape of The Sleeping Beauty ballet; from his early exploits in Haight-Ashbury, to tales of his explosive temperament--most recently one about his slapping a clumsy ballerina in the face during a performance. Rudolf Nureyev: I Am a Dancer, is the most comprehensive footage on the man and his work to date, but the film offers little insight into its subject's flamboyant personality. Instead, it tiptoes around the man as though too much pressure would make him burst, and reduces his art to the equivalent of a television...

Author: By Sarah M. Wood, | Title: Nureyev on Film | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...worth knowing, in the context, that I tend to fall in love randomly, helplessly, with no provovation. With Gladys Knight, Cybill Shepard Kodak advertisements, Candy Bergen Life covers, librarians, bank tellers, and one topless dancer. That was the worst. Imagine the trauma of deciding the girl of your dreams was peeling, in front of the hardest core perverts, in a Combat Zone dive. And now, I'm in love with various elements of roughly six women. It's not an easy life...

Author: By Freddy Boyd, | Title: More or Less A Memoir | 4/12/1973 | See Source »

...deck into four suits probably had origins in divination, as a reference to the four quarters of the world. But the four-suit deck is largely a Western convention: there are round Hindu cards with ten suits representing the ten incarnations of Vishnu, and some Persian decks had five-dancer, queen, soldier, king and lion (see opposite page, top left). In the classical fortuneteller's deck, the tarot, the suits were four: cups, swords, coins and batons. Each suit had 14 cards, with four court cards that included a knight. To this pack of 56 were added a further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In the Cards | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...Weisman answered: "If you give it to me, I'll print every comma and period-and I presume, since you'll be saying it, it'll be true." "Reporter, huh?", bellowed Daley as Weisman walked away. "If you're a reporter, I am a ballet dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 12, 1973 | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

Nightclubs are coming back. Couples are holding hands under candlelit tables and listening to songs they can hum along with. One good reason is fast-footed Singer-Dancer Joel Grey, 40, veteran of Cabaret, from both the stage version and the movie, for which he is up for an Oscar. Now he is back I in the kind of cabaret he says he likes ; best. Lugging a trunk studded with I stickers from his past Broadway hits I around the stage at the Waldorf, Joel clowns with the audience about his 30 years in show business: "I wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 5, 1973 | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

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