Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOSE M. FERRER III New York City...
...unfolding drama. To many observers, the performance was unsatisfactory-but the Kirov productions of Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake easily made up for it. Substantially different from the version offered by Britain's Royal Ballet (the famous fish dives were omitted from the pas de deux in Act III), the Kirov Sleeping Beauty was by general consensus more graceful than any ever seen on an English stage. Again the company avoided the driving finishes that are the Bolshoi's hallmark, but in this case, the Kirov impressionist technique seemed far better tailored to the material...
...Navy's navigation satellites, which looked like a bass drum spangled with bright solar cells and patches of white paint. Perched on top of it like the gobs of a three-scoop ice cream cone were a polished aluminum sphere, the Naval Research Laboratory's Greb III solar radiation satellite, and a smaller drum named Injun, built at Dr. James Van Allen's laboratory at the State University of Iowa. Boosted aloft by a Thor-Able-Star rocket, all three satellites soared into space together. Though the launch was successful, the strong springs, meant to shove...
...famous. It weighs only 40 lbs., but packed inside are instruments to measure particles circulating around the earth in the two Van Allen radiation belts, to count fresh particles arriving from the sun or distant space, and to observe several kinds of light from airglow and auroras. Greb III (155 lbs.) is simpler; it is part of the Navy's long-term effort to study solar radiation that ionizes the atmosphere and effects radio transmission. Its job is to keep tabs on X rays coming mostly from solar flares...
...unconsciously upstages other actors, notably Peter Gesell who makes Touchstone little more than a fugitive from the Old Howard. perhaps the production would have been improved by Mr. Kazanoff's trading roles with Tom Griffin, whose Orlando, far from being ebullient, is dour and grumpy enough for a Richard III or an Edmund. (Mr. Griffin, sad to say, has been beset by two of the continuing Terrors of all Shakespearean acting: the Noble Voice, which attempts to sound English and inspiring and most closely resembles muffled Gielgud, and the Emphatic Shimmy, apparently an attempt to lend emphasis to a speech...