Word: lara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jorge Perez de Lara Mexico City...
There are a few disappointments. Lara Teeter, who plays Junior Dolan, sings and dances well enough, but he does not have the personality to carry such a large and important part. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, the main number, looks oddly scratchy, and Balanchine's hand is clearly missing. Such faults, however, are far from catastrophic and, given the show's assets, weigh less than they otherwise might. On Your Toes is no longer a pioneer, but it offers something rarely encountered on Broadway these days: guaranteed enjoyment. -By Gerald Clarke
...Portillo was an outgoing sportsman and ban vivant, De la Madrid prefers recreations like reading at home in his library or in the garden (among his favorite authors: Hermann Hesse, Morris West and Mexico's Carlos Fuentes), listening to music (Mozart and Mexican romantics like Agustin Lara), or playing dominoes. Every two or three weeks he travels to his family's country home where he enjoys swimming, badminton and walking. He keeps in shape by doing calisthenics every day; he also jogs. He admits to a mild passion for soccer, but rarely attends matches at Mexico...
Said Stone: "Having been stabbed in the back several times before, I am not anxious in let [Lara] stand behind me once again...
Engrossed in love and work, Pasternak appeared oblivious to the menace of the purges. At the age of 58, he had fallen in love with Olga Ivinskaya, and in a state of exaltation much like Yuri Zhivago's over Lara, he wrote: "I am madly, unutterably happy in my free, open, all-embracing acceptance of life, an acceptance I ought to have known at the age of 18 or 20, but then I was constrained, then I had not yet grown up to basic things and did not know how wonderful is the language of life, the language...