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...class. Says one ballerina: "Nureyev is like Callas singing Bellini; Bruhn is like Schwarzkopf singing Mozart." But Bruhn has learned something about characterization from his friend Nureyev. As Don Jose in Roland Petit's version of Carmen, Bruhn was a man possessed, a smoldering Valentino driven by lust and racked with despair. Eyes afire, nostrils flaring, he sprang about the shadowy stage with the fierce grace of a panther. But later in the week, in the pas de deux from Petipa's sprightly Don Quixote, he reverted to the cool precision of his classical discipline. His high, floating...
Unhappily-and here's the twist-milord's lust for battle counts as nothing compared to the lust inspired in him by a winsome peasant girl, Rosemary Forsyth. He needs her, he explains, as he needs bread, sunshine, fire in winter. Honor. Well, blast honor. He claims the lass on the very day of her marriage to a husky serf, invoking the ancient droit du seigneur whereby a nobleman may claim ''the right of the first night" with any bride in his domain. The local priest (Maurice Evans) fusses a bit, suggesting that he choose another...
...fell into sobbing tantrums in times of stress. In later life, she always got sicker when her fortunes ebbed-in one crisis she lost the use of her legs for some weeks. If she was a hysteric, Author Davison considers it highly unlikely that Mary was driven by lust to contrive the death of her husband. Instead, like most hysterics, Mary was probably sexually frigid...
...this long, painstakingly researched biographical novel of John and Abigail Adams, Novelist Stone has had the good judgment to stick to the historical facts and the good grace to forsake, largely, the flamboyant style that marred his bestselling biographical novels about Van Gogh (Lust for Life) and Michelangelo (The Agony and the Ecstasy). He lapses occasionally by trying to make the plain but amusing Abigail into a pert glamour girl, but he manages to convey the softening influence she had on her crotchety and unbending husband, from the day he first came calling when she was 17 until the moment...
...other numbers, Lane's score improves Lerner's book by ignoring it. A totally extraneous injection of vitality is supplied by Greek actor Titos Vandis who comes on in Act II as an Onassis-like character and changes with delightful inconsistency into Zorba the Greek. The lust for lust is a trifle self-conscious in a big, scurrying Herbert Ross dance (At the Hell-rakers') in which girls are hustled across the stage like silhouettes in a military class for aircraft recognition. Robert Lewis has directed the entire enterprise as if he were killing time, which...