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...foremost.With an elegance particular to matron dancers, Mallardi speaks of her life with a combination of grace and wry humor. Her stories flow from convivial to grave, from focused to tangential. She spent her childhood in the Bronx, learning tap and jazz by going to the cinema and imitating Fred Astaire and his ilk. Her first dance class was part of an after-school physical education program, and it was in this unlikely setting that she had her first creative breakthrough. When given an assignment to “do something” with a nursery rhyme, Mallardi says...
...Dunster House Opera Society. Dunster House Dining Hall. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $20 general; $8 students; $7 Dunster residents.Doublehung: Exhibitions I & II. Exhibition I through Feb. 11; Exhibition II through Feb. 24. Carpenter Center. Free.Quantum Grids: Cai Guo-Qiang, Yayoi Kusama, Sol LeWitt, and Fred Tomaselli. Through April 16. Carpenter Center. Free.“To Delight the Eye”: French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap. Through Mar. 12. Fogg Museum.To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop. Ongoing. Fogg Museum.Evocative...
DIED. FAYARD NICHOLAS, 91, tap dancer extraordinaire who, with brother Harold, performed gravity-defying fantasias with his feet, inspiring generations of dancers from Fred Astaire to Savion Glover; in Toluca Lake, Calif. The self-taught Nicholas Brothers leaped to prominence in the '30s, performing flips and splits with ease. Their acrobatics landed them roles in nearly 30 films--including 1943's Stormy Weather, whose finale features a flawless leapfrog down a spiral staircase. But because of Jim Crow--era practices, the African-American brothers rarely got starring or speaking parts...
...that go nowhere by playing both sides-betting on rising prices some of the time and falling prices at other times. Can you say hedge fund? Sure, the hefty pay filters through the economy, especially in New York. But the bonuses this year call to mind the title of Fred Schwed's famous book on how the Street works: Where Are the Customers' Yachts? Schwed asked the question in 1940. Maybe it's time to start asking again...
...wanted to hire me because, after eight years in journalism, I could be had cheap. This still didn't work out well for them. Which is why I'm trying to make it up by plugging the show. It premieres this Thursday! 9:30 p.m. E.T.! ABC! Jane Curtin! Fred Savage! William Devane! Tell your friends with Nielsen boxes...