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...sports will be in the midst of tournaments on Saturday. The men's squash team travels to Yale for the MISRA Championships, the men's track team is hosting the Heptagonals at the ITT, the wrestling team will be in Princeton, N.J. for the EIWA tournament, the women hoopsters gambol off to UPenn for the Ivies, the women's hockey team hosts the Ivy tournament at Bright Center, the women's squash team travels to Bowdoin for the WISRA Championships and the women's tracksters bus it to Cornell to battle for the Ivy Crown. Whew...
This is not a gambol for just any dancers. The work is dominated by Mikhail Baryshnikov, who is appearing as a guest artist. Ashton has created unexampled leaps and spins (and combinations of the two), as if he saw in Baryshnikov the spirit of Paganini, who raised violin virtuosity to a demonic level, and of Rachmaninoff, who did much the same for the piano. The charm of the work is that it never becomes the visual equivalent of piano busting, a mere showcase...
Sure we all envy the ballplayer--so young, so strong, playing hookie from winter, inflation, the energy crisis, and urban blight to gambol in the Florida clime and play baseball, just play baseball...
...River at the company's International Center for Training and Management in Leesburg, Va. The $3.5 million facility includes a putting green, a soccer field, a swimming pool, two gyms, four tennis courts, two racketball courts, a weight-lifting room and 2,300 wooded acres where joggers can gambol, often in the company of deer...
...frippery. Light as whipped cream, sparkling as champagne, frivolous as a Rococco ceiling, Beaumarchais' Figaro spices the Loeb mainstage this weekend. Intellectual content? Probably very little (but if you need an excuse to gambol the first weekend of Reading Period, try to trace the Moliere influences). Scholarly substance? Come now (though if you insist, this was the primary source for both Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" and Rossini's "Barber of Seville"). Profundity? Not a smidgen, I hope. But for you brain-becobwebbed hordes, here's energy and elegance, a jewel-box set and pure Goya costumes, zip and charm...