Word: galas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That sort of callousness is about what people with cancer can expect, according to Hildegard Knef. She has it and lives Proust's horrid little scene. She is in a consulting room when fear engulfs her. "I'll see you at the gala," the doctor assures her. "I'm afraid you won't," she says. "Now, now, now, fresh air, enjoy life and love" is the advice...
That was evident in Peking recently at the Third National Games, a 17-day internal Chinese Olympics. The huge grab bag of a gala involved more than 10,000 athletes vying in dozens of events including track, rowing, shooting, martial arts and chess. During the opening ceremonies at the 80,000-seat Workers' Stadium, the Chinese practiced their flash-card magic; more than 8,000 people were pressed into service to flash poster-size cards. The result of this collective enterprise: "Ode to the Red Flag," a kaleidoscope of socialist realism scenes, beginning with the message...
...child, John Owen regularly visited the plant with his father on gala days. "At company Christmas parties, my father always played Santa Claus. Otherwise he always referred to it as 'the works,' and he must
...checkered, financially precarious history, American Ballet Theater has probably had more downs than ups -but oh! is it up now. Last week, to celebrate its 35th anniversary year, Ballet Theater offered a glorious, fund-raising gala at the State Theater of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. No other company in the world could have brought together on one stage so many stars of so great a magnitude...
Swirling Sequence. At the gala, he appeared twice, the first time in the Don Quixote pas de deux with Noella Pontois, a soubrette-style dancer from the Paris Opéra Ballet. After one swirling sequence of pantherlike turns, he landed - not just on one knee as most dancers would, but on one knee with the other leg fully extended. It was a daring variant on a familiar bit of acrobatics, since Baryshnikov is quite likely to break an ankle if his timing is a split second...