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...readers thought that the group actually existed.) Schumann also made up imaginary women, especially during his long, arduous court ship of his wife Clara. Three of the four couples who make up the ballet (Suzanne Farrell and Jacques D'Amboise, Heather Watts and Peter Martins, Kay Mazzo and Ib Andersen) are doubtless members in good standing of Schumann's magic cir cle. The fourth pair, Karin von Aroldingen and Adam Lüders, inhabit a desperate interior world. For although Schumann's youthful pipe dreams were lightly scatty, his mind eventually disintegrated into madness...
...cast, Balanchine has turned to his "old guard," people whom he has worked with and molded over years. Only Ib Andersen is a newcomer. Only he and Heather Watts are under 30, and she and Peter Martins live together. There is a common instinct and a shared intimacy, even love, among the performers and the choreographer that make Davidsbündlertänze a pleasure to watch. One sees Farrell's stabbing attacks and abandoned extensions, Mazzo's charm and pliancy, Watts' unguarded enthusiasm, Martins' cool, assessing mastery. There is little vir tuosity here; steps seem...
...yogurt, is exceptionally good, as is a soft curd cheese called tvorog. Fruits and vegetables are found only in season, but often have more flavor than those in the U.S. Canned salmon and crab meat are especially delicate. Caviar? Nothing matches Russian beluga, which costs about $27 per Ib. (compared with $420 per Ib. in the U.S.), when it is available...
...religious reasons, while many cited deteriorating economic conditions on the island. Severe shortages have compelled the government to maintain strict rationing on everything from meat to shoes and have forced prices on the black market up to prohibitive levels. Even black beans, a Cuban staple, now cost $2.50 per Ib. "The Cuban economy is in a state of collapse," said Electrician Luis Santana. "It's sunk...
Nelson Bunker Hunt is lying low these days, which is not easy for the 275 Ib. Croesus, whose silver market setback last month triggered Wall Street's worst panic in nearly two decades. Hunt had tried to corner silver and been badly squeezed, when prices plummeted from $21.50 per oz. to $10.20 in less than four days. Early last week Hunt was tucking into a steak dinner in the Rib Room of London's Carlton Tower hotel when a Merrill Lynch customer's man seated near by spotted him. After Hunt had returned to his room...