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...Dream (1964) and danced together in 18 other ballets won renown as one of the most poignant and refined in dance history: a sleek, sensuous welding of two bodies into a single winged entity. In 1980, at Ashton's urging, Sibley made her comeback at a charity gala in London: "Get up there and dance," commanded Sir Frederick...
...Northern Ireland and of Her Other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. At the crowded National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica, a children's chorus a thousand strong was singing a Jamaican folk song that the Queen had requested. The occasion was a gala celebration of Jamaica's 21st birthday and of the arrival of the Queen on the first leg of her month-long royal gallivant...
OPENING NIGHT at the Hasty Pudding Theatrical one big coming out party for the campus's bourgeois gent. I dxedo they quall champagne and hobnob at gala parties before, during and after the performance. They speak of friends and women and money mostly money and several spill champagne on their dates blouses, because it is fashionable. They are in large part the affiliant of the Hasty Pudding past and present. One day they will be Lee or perhaps John DeLoreans but tonight, by showtime, many are besotted. All are happy. Staggering penguins in Cambridge, it is a surreal scene...
Usually the Super Bowl has small chance to live up to a season's expectations, but there was precious little season this year, and relatively few expectations. National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle even called off his traditional gala the Friday before, an intimate gathering with a turnstile, because celebrating this year would be unseemly. Except for one city, Super Bowl XVII would always recall the time when the players walked out for 57 days, and some of the fans stayed away longer...
...gala reception marking the show's opening took place not at the Pompidou Center, where a strike had delayed the hanging of the artwork, but at a nearby unfinished restaurant...