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...Deux. The spelling assignment went to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, whose group architecture produced a design with two important new space-creating features. The building is entirely supported by steel columns outside the glass facade, thus leaving on each floor an unobstructed span, 58 ft. across by 177 ft. long, for flexible office planning. The service core with its elevators, rest rooms and air conditioning, which clutter up the center of most office buildings, is installed in a separate tower...
...patterns that Balanchine has made a trademark. The mixture was unlikely, but when Keeler had twanged out his last call ("That is all; the dance is ended/ The music is finished; the caller's winded''), audiences cheered the blend of do-si-do and pas de deux...
...delight in getting out of them gracefully. As the music mocks itself-in a trumpet jeer or a pizzicato poke-the dancers mock the music with a hop, skip or bump. Most dramatic bits: Canadian-born Melissa Hayden's stunning solo variation and a languorous, sensual pas de deux exquisitely danced by Virginia-born Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell, a talented Negro member of the company. The whole work takes less than 25 minutes, but it unmistakably shows Composer Stravinsky, 75, and Choreographer Balanchine, 53, at the top of their formidable form...
Wisdom: What artistic differences put asunder 26 years ago TV joined last week when Dancers Ruth St. Denis, 80 and Ted Shawn, a flabby 66, did a conversational pas de deux for NBC's Wisdom. Though the long-married, long-separated ancients displayed some vigorous dancing form-"Miss Ruth" can still kick up a ripply Oriental routine-they were liveliest when kicking TV. Shawn on TV choreography: "The cameras are so nervous they're always coming up under the girls' skirts or having wind machines or closeups. The camera ought to stay in one spot...
...Sketch last week assigned its married superman to bring a wife back to her husband (she promised to think about it), appointed him Daddy-for-a-Day to a ten-year-old boy whose father was in the hospital, packed him off to Paris for a daydream à deux with a pretty 20-year-old who wrote that she wanted "to go shopping with a man like him and have him take me to lunch at Paris' No. 1 restaurant." Though his first missions (he spends from a day to a week on each one) proved more...