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...pleasures, both small and large. In one charming vignette, a great-bellied guru beats time as he teaches a tiny girl some basic gestures of Indian classical dance. Much of a segment on stage performance compares Bando Tamasaburo, a Kabuki star who excels in female roles, with Larissa Lezhnina, a dazzling young ballerina of Russia's Kirov Ballet. In surprisingly complementary ways, their performances -- his in a dance-drama called Dojoji, hers in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty -- embody Eastern and Western ideals of womanhood...
That morning Olga said, "Anatoli Sergeyevich, why are you sitting in your study all the time? Let's go swimming. The bodyguards can't walk out to the water, but they won't stop you. We won't be allowed to go without you." So Olga, Larissa (a nurse) and Tatyana (a masseuse, a big and good-natured woman) came to us and we set off to the beach...
...sent a telegram to my father telling him to tie Panos up so he couldn't leave for America. Instead, my father got him an English teacher," she says conspiratorially. The rest is history: Panos became a doctor in Massachusetts and married a girl from the Greek town of Larissa, who became a schoolteacher in America...
...definitely worth it," said Larissa MacFarquahar '90, another pollster. "Otherwise we would have been a lot more conservative [with our house choices...
...group is pretty set," said James, "but anyone can still join if they want to." Callbacks holds neither auditions nor callbacks. "We're trying not to become too hung up on becoming a really competitive group--it's fun the way it is," said Larissa D. Stillman '90, another co-founder...