Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult dual role of Odette-Odile, Ballerina Inna Zubkovskaya was an airy Swan Queen and a menacing Black Swan; when the cast changed for the second night's performance, Ballerina Kaleria Fedicheva proved the better actress, and possibly the better dancer. She dared the famous 32 jouettes en tournant (whipping spins) that Zubkovskaya omitted for a less spectacular series of swift traveling turns...
...increasingly violent passion. The avalanche of sensuality starts when a bored wife has an affair with a young clerk on her old husband's household staff, and leads with chilling practicality to a murder, then to another and another; and the story ends in a convict gang en route to Siberia as the wife pulls a rival down to joint death in a river...
...friends and associates, Architect Eero Saarinen was known as "a man who is always en charette." The term goes back to the heyday of Paris' Beaux Arts, when young architectural students, late with their assignments, would hire little carts to rush their designs to their professors just before deadline. Saarinen was never tardy because of carelessness; it was merely that he was such a perfectionist that he could not let a plan out of his office until the very last moment. As he himself said, he worked "in elephant time." But before his death last week...
...Galilean village, 201 ballots were invalidated because they proved to be one-fifth of an inch smaller than regulation size. Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem refused to enter a polling place that had once been a Christian church and still bore across. Tel Aviv election officials were shocked when voters, en route to the beach, voted while wearing bikinis and swimming trunks...
Interviewed on the radio, the assistant mayor of the Riviera town of Aix-en-Provence confidently brushed aside a question that was very much on the minds of local art lovers. An Aix museum had on display a major Cezanne show of 22 oils, 19 watercolors and 19 drawings. In view of the successful burglary over Bastille Day weekend of 57 canvases from the Municipal Museum in nearby St. Tropez, were the authorities concerned that the Cezannes might be stolen? "Not at all," said the assistant mayor. "In Aix we have armed guards." Thirty hours later, eight of the Cezannes...