Word: jesters
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...dancing overshadowed everything else. Before the performance was well under way, a lithe, vivacious ballerina named Alia Sizova stopped the show with her lyrical dancing in the pas de trois of Act I. Sweltering balletomanes interrupted a dozen more times to applaud Alexander Pavlovsky's nimble jester, the ethereal cygnets of Act II, the despairing swans of the finale. In the difficult dual role of Odette-Odile, Ballerina Inna Zubkovskaya was an airy Swan Queen and a menacing Black Swan; when the cast changed for the second night's performance, Ballerina Kaleria Fedicheva proved the better actress...
...Testing Age. The judge's grandson Jester is just old enough, at 17, to question the judge's values without having any clear-cut standards of his own. He is at the testing age. He tests his bravery soloing a plane and his manhood with a prostitute. But the test of his humanity comes when he tries to befriend a fellow teen-ager named Sherman Pew. Sherman is a blue-eyed Negro orphan who was found in a church pew. He is as wary as a porcupine and just about as tactful. In odd moments of disarming color...
...powerless against a world they cannot change. The fantasy of the dying druggist is simply that he is not dying, even while he is. The fantasy of the judge is that he can get the Government to redeem Confederate money, $10 million of which he happens to have. Jester's fantasy revolves around the suicide of his father: if he can discover the cause of that, he feels, he will establish his own identity. Sherman is also an identity searcher, but his fantasy is that his mother is some noted Negro show business celebrity who was raped...
...Rubens, who spent nine months at the Spanish court, tried to puff up his noble and royal subjects by surrounding them with allegorical figures, Velásquez painted them exactly as they were. His figures stand out against subdued or neutral backgrounds, but whether dwarf or princeling or court jester, they are full-fledged individuals, painted without adornment and without malice...
...leaders will have the incalculable advantage of knowing me." Allen may find it rough going in enticing John F. Kennedy into the recreations that he enjoyed with Gettysburg Neighbor Dwight Eisenhower (farming, bridge and golf), Harry Truman (poker) or Franklin D. Roosevelt (for whom Allen was a top jester as well as a District of Columbia commissioner). Last week Golfer Kennedy, never keen on card games, made it clear that there will be no afternoon trips to Burning Tree: he will abstain from golfing unless he is on a declared vacation. The one hope left for Allen seemed...