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...encores. At 70, Russian ballerina MAYA PLISETSKAYA is still dancing (she just performed in New York City; next she's off to Spain). Age has dulled the athleticism that made her one of the Bolshoi's biggest draws (she liked to tap her head with her foot in mid-leap), but she's irrepressible. Plisetskaya told the New York Times, "I still feel the magic. If I have no more interest in dancing, I'll stop...
...even on dark themes, her writing, like his, has the elegant fizz of brut champagne." One terrible night in 1968 Douglass Adair, then a teacher at the Claremont colleges, walked into their bedroom and killed himself. His widow's agony and incomprehension, in poems reflecting lost love, all but leap from page to reader...
Every time Quad residents wait at the curb near Johnston Gate or the Science Center, hearts leap. Is that monolith coming around the corner our shuttle? No, it's a Greyhound bus. Is that rattle-and-hum our shuttle? No, it's a snowplow. Is that knight in shining armor on wheels our shuttle...
With an expression of art as contemporary as modern dance, it is not always easy to draw exact meanings from a performance. A startled leap, a passionate embrace, the hurling of dolls across the stage--all of these motions could mean a number of things. Anger? Fear? Rebellion against society? A choreographer's intention can be difficult to decipher. With a company like Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, however, those intentions can be nearly impossible to grasp...
While CEOs are no doubt preparing speeches about the relationship between risk and reward, a few statistics intrude. To wit: despite the gush of profits, stockholders didn't see a comparable leap in their dividends. And employees took home only 2.7% more in wages and benefits during the year, the lowest increase since the government began tracking compensation in '81. Though turn-of-the-century financier J.P. Morgan argued that a CEO should never make more than 20 times the average salary of a company's employees, the ratio has escalated radically in recent years. In a sample...