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...missed a lift during the grand pas de deux from The Nutcracker. " 'Where are you, Valery?' I cried to myself," she said later. However, in The Lady and the Hooligan, a Shostakovich ballet, Galina's feathery pirouettes and Panov's dramatic aerial twists and one-knee landings were expressed in sharp balletic syntax...
Flamboyant knee socks have been on sale for several years, but are now "in" as never before. The socks' success owes much to the recession, which has curbed clothing budgets; instead of buying a skirt, for example, many women are settling for snappy socks...
Even in warmer parts of the South and California-where knee socks are often more of an accessory than a necessity-sales are strong. "People aren't buying them because they're freezing," says Rochelle Toas, a salesclerk at Los Angeles' Potpourri boutique. "They are buying them because they're cute." In Atlanta, Donald Campbell, regional manager of the six Casual Corner shops in the area, complains that the peppy new socks "don't last on the floor more than a few days...
Hosiery designers-apparently long repressed-are now turning out such creations as shocking-purple knee socks that have motorcycles embellishing the ankles; other socks are covered with screaming psychedelic stripes or patterns that range from arrays of ladybugs to flotillas of balloons...
...served as a tune up for the big Ivy League clash with Princeton in the IAB on the 31st. Harvard, after drubbing Dartmouth last Saturday, is a serious contender for the Ivy title, and the Princeton meet will be crucial. Mike Dee is expected to be back from a knee injury sustained at Clarion, to wrestle...