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...weekend-long event, which featured a night of student performances entitled "Phenomenal Woman," a reception with Brooks and a semi-formal gala in Adams House, featured the poet as an example of an "outstanding Black woman...
Brook's presentation was only one part of theCelebration of Black Women, an event that began onFriday night with "Phenomenal Woman"--named afterthe poem by Maya Angelou--and ended on Saturdaynight with a semi-formal gala in Adams House...
Governor Pete Wilson and his wife Gayle, who performed the musical number at their inaugural gala in a Sacramento sports palace last month, not surprisingly brought down the house. But the striking thing was not that this most buttoned-up of Governors should let his hair down. It was the realization that just a year ago, any such whoop-de-do would have been unheard of: California's woes were nothing to make fun of. The state was still dazed by natural calamities and demoralized by an eco-nomic slump. Since last summer, though, the surfing state has been riding...
...having a distinctly American style. That is shorthand for speed, an audacious freedom of movement and an offhand, nonshowy virtuosity-all qualities that make Bussell exhilarating to watch. With such a style, it was inevitable that she would conquer America, and she did so in June 1993 at the gala marking New York City Ballet's Balanchine celebration. To dramatize the international impact of Balanchine's work, artistic director Peter Martins invited some foreign dancers to perform with the company. Bussell was ablaze in the sexy pas de deux from Agon-and brought down the house, the prime spectacle...
...organizers of last fall's An Evening With Champions figure-skating gala presented representatives of the Jimmy Fund with the largest check thus far in the benefit's history in a ceremony at Eliot House last night...