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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Leonide Fedorovich Massine, 83, pioneering dancer and choreographer who sought to synthesize all fields of art on the ballet stage; after a brief illness; in Cologne, West Germany. Invited at age 18 to join the Ballets Russes by Impresario Serge Diaghilev, who admired "his deep burning eyes in a face already touched by melancholy," the Moscow-born Massine scored his first great success in 1917, when he collaborated with Artist Pablo Picasso, Writer Jean Cocteau and Composer Erik Satie to produce Parade, thus turning the ballet world toward modernism. The wiry dancer, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was probably best...
...Orchestra musicians could demonstrate a point of technique rapidly. Then he plunged ahead, a riveting little figure dressed to silk-screen perfection in a mod-Mao white suit by Designer Hanae Mori. He virtually pummeled the unruly sound into order and expressiveness, right leg stamping the beat, arms punching deep into the recalcitrant horn section...
Hans Tobeason's lighting helps to transform the entr'actes and set changes into complements of the action. In these transitions, the lights shade from lavender to deep blue to gray, mirroring the emotional metamorphoses from...
...Knee Deep...
...problems last week, but even President Carter took time out to watch an otherworldly show as the Voyager 1 spacecraft made its closest approach to the giant planet Jupiter. Coming within 278,000 km (172,400 miles) of the swirling Jovian cloud tops, the robot survived intense radiation, peered deep into the planet's storm-tossed cloud cover, provided startling views of the larger Jovian moons and, most surprising of all, revealed the presence of a thin, flat ring around the great planet. Said University of Arizona Astronomer Bradford Smith: "We're standing here with our mouths open...