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...make a dazzling operatic debut, and since then Cio-Cio-San has been one of her favorite parts. Last week Anna had a chance to restudy the role in Butterfly's homeland. On her first visit to Japan, she wasted no time becoming acclimatized. To the delight of the tourists, she tripped through Tokyo's Chinzanso Gardens in a silk kimono, white makeup and the elaborate coiffure of a geisha. After which Anna, who a couple of years ago was advocating opera in the buff, recorded her first impression of covered-up Japan: "I have discovered that...
...Pyke was attacking Captain Mark Phillips for his handling of the hunter that had been lent to him by his mother-in-law for the grueling three-day contest of dressage, show and cross-country jumping. A big gray, Columbus had galloped off with the Whitbread Trophy to the delight of Winner Mark and Owner Queen Elizabeth, and the wifely acquiescence of Princess Anne, who placed fourth in the event. Mark had his defenders, however. Said Dorian Williams, a veteran equestrian and BBC commentator at Badminton: "The horse was pulling like a train throughout...
...there might be no freshman seminar production at all. This type of performance, however, even if it is a simple by-product of a year's "academic" work, is worth retaining, if not for the course's participants, than at least for the audience's delight...
...year or more passed. My son Sergei, who's an engineer himself, had something to do with missiles and kept me informed on how the testing program was going. He also followed American publications closely. One day, to my surprise and delight, he told me that he'd read in some American journal that the U.S. had begun to replace launching pads with silos...
Lithe Bodies. Considering what the dancers were doing on stage at the premiere, the mural did, at moments, serve as a kind of bas-relief. The youthful (average age: 21) Harkness troupers have splendidly lithe bodies for ballet. They are uniformly well schooled and delight in showing off, even flaunting, their imposing technique. Unfortunately, the choreography they are called upon to perform is of a piece with Senor Senis-Oliver's mural: epicene, self-indulgent and fundamentally empty...