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Chance to Dance. But is it a great ballet? The steps are modern and functional, with never a tour jeté, never an entrechat or a grand fouetté. Manhattan first-nighters, who sat through its half-hour length with scarcely a rippling interruption of applause, demanded 16 curtain calls, with Jacqueline Kennedy clapping energetically enough for two. Nureyev's magnetic personality demands an audience's attention. In Swan Lake, he disclosed some of his enormous technical facility, and in Marguerite, with less chance to dance, he demonstrated that he can also act. But so much...
Breakfast Caviar. Before takeoff, the pilot warmed up his four turboprops for a full half-hour. Then we lifted off, climbed gradually to 33,000 ft., leveled. A pink-cheeked'stewardess, her nose peeling after a day on a Cuban beach, brought breakfast-caviar, lettuce, salty smoked salmon to begin with; a small beefsteak with potatoes and green Cuban tomatoes to follow; a piece of cake and an orange for dessert, with coffee. As first-class passengers, we got vodka and wine; tourist passengers got nothing stronger than mineral water, and three civil engineers from Leningrad complained loudly...
Morath's bowdlerized ragtime first appeared on a television show called The Ragtime Era, for the National Educational Television Center. Morath now has 15 half-hour shows, Turn of the Century, in which he mixes snatches of cultural his tory into a formula of songs, monologues and lantern slides. A thin, volatile man, he usually noodles out the music first on the piano, then talks about the men who wrote it and of the day when ragtime was the "folk music of the city...
David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, said it would be "utterly ridiculous" to grant a half-hour extension, as the Law School has done. "It seems to me we've gone about as far as we can," he declared...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Brinkley has been granted an extra half-hour in order to tour Malta and four pocket nations: Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein and Monaco...