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...Ballet Fan Club in Cincinnati just five years ago. "Now I practice right next to Maria Tallchief," she says. "I can't believe it!" She started dancing at eight to overcome her "tomboy habits," has since blossomed into a softly lyrical dancer, marvelously expressive in the pas de deux to Tchaikovsky's Meditation. Says Balanchine: "She is an alabaster princess; you couldn't design a better figure...
Weeks of language lessons at his country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises had equipped De Gaulle with enough Spanish and Portuguese phrases to sprinkle through his speeches, though they did little to correct his heavy French accent. Tucked away in De Gaulle's prodigious memory were the key facts of South American history, geography, economics and politics contained in ten hefty dossiers prepared last winter by France's Latin American embassies...
...University of Denver, he was studying to be a Methodist minister when an attack of diphtheria left him paralyzed from the waist down. Ballet lessons were prescribed to aid his recovery. Private therapy was one thing. But dancing in public? When Shawn actually danced a waltzy pas de deux at an arts ball, faculty members were shocked and fraternity brothers sniggered. "Men," he was quietly informed, "don't dance." Shawn quit the university, and has viewed his art ever since as a logical "continuation of my sense of ministry...
After a three-week rest at his villa in rural Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, France's foremost convalescent returned to public life last week, and instantly the nation's favorite game became face watching. The face, of course, belonged to Charles de Gaulle, and what his countrymen saw in it depended partly on their politics. The anti-Gaullist weekly L'Express, for instance, carried a photo of a worn, waxen-faced man whose eyes were more deeply pouched than ever. Gaullists found him leaner than before his April prostate operation but fit enough to serve for years...
...male dancer reaches into a movie screen for his ballerina and performs a perfect pas de deux with her projected image. A pianist plays onstage accompanied by seven movie versions of himself, playing different instruments. A roller skater, chasing four girls who have boarded a bus, rolls downhill on the narrow streets of the oldest quarter of Prague, dodging pedestrians, cars, cops, beer carts, fire engines, lampposts. This roller skater is onstage as well as on various screens, weaving and skirring from one medium to the other. Some spectators found this bizarre slalom more breathtaking than the roller-coaster ride...