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When Baryshnikov, 33, was named to the post, he spent the year before his appointment took effect studying the troupe he would inherit from Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, who had guided it for nearly four decades. Misha had danced with the company and knew its strengths-a rich, eclectic repertory, an unbroken record of presenting some of the world's best dancers. He was also aware of some recent flaws. Performance standards had grown erratic, particularly in the corps; management tended to let dancers succeed or drift without much direction. Recalling that year, Baryshnikov says, "I wanted...
...term singing actress was virtually made for her. She opened up the territory of bel canto that was to be explored by Sills and Sutherland. An equal achievement was her interpretation of the war-horses-Lucia, Tosca-so that the weariest ear could hear them as new works of art. Her musical values were the strictest and most scrupulous. She sang with complete fidelity to the composer and his idiom; yet the human essence of each heroine shone through her interpretation. Audiences felt that they were seeing Norma or Violetta. Hers was not a conventionally "beautiful" voice, like that...
...Lucia Meyers Madison, Miss...
...itinerary sounded like something drawn up by a Caribbean cruise director: Barbados and St. Lucia, Haiti and Jamaica, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the U.S. Gulf Coast. But the voyage left shattering death and destruction in its wake. Hurricane Allen brought savage 185 m.p.h. winds and 20-ft. waves. It wiped out most of the Caribbean banana crop, demolished thousands of homes and killed more than 100 people before its final landfall in Texas. Said Noel Risnychok, a meteorologist at Miami's National Hurricane Center, as the winds scythed through the normally placid Caribbean: "Allen has the potential...
Allen ran past Barbados, but the island of St. Lucia caught its full force. In Haiti Allen destroyed virtually the entire coffee crop, a major source of income for the impoverished island, and killed at least 50. Before the hurricane cut across Jamaica, Prime Minister Michael Manley pleaded on national radio: "I ask for God's blessing for this night." Though western Cuba was barely scratched, the storm battered nearby Isla Juventud, where 25,000 teen-agers from Third World countries are studying on Cuban scholarships, then swiped at the Yucat...