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...Ballet Theater premiere at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center, he took Don Quixote, a favorite Russian ballet little known in this country, and turned it into-a classical vaudeville? A romantic comedy? A Broadway musical en pointe? The new Don Q is in part all of these, a marvel of speed, timing and razzle-dazzle. The setting is Spanish and the tradition Russian, but the flavor is distinctly American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Americanization of Don Q | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...Park, (59th and Fifth), and hop in a horsedrawn buggy. The ride is very romantic, and it is one of the only remnants of old New York that is still around. While you're there, hop across the street to F.A.O. Schwarz, the world-famous toy store. You can marvel at the outrageously-priced Stieff stuffed animals, or tinker with the countless mechanical contraptions always on display...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rockettes' Last Gleaming | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

...shirts. A continuous film program featured classics from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to "Bambi Meets Godzilla." An art show gave amateur and not-so-amateur painters a chance to show their work--most of which looked like a combination of Maxfield Parrish, Peter Max, and Marvel comics...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Close Encounters In Beantown | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

...attend as many sporting events as I would like to. So I reply on your column to stay in tune with athletics on campus. To start with, since your title reveals your European or Canadian descent, I think you manage English remarkably well as a second language. Furthermore, I marvel at the number and variety of events you relate. Who could imagine a college with a greater sports smorgasbord...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Snoway to Go: This Was the Week That Wasn't | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

...star of the U.S. spy satellite stable is the Lockheed "Big Bird," a 12-ton technological marvel orbiting as high as 250 miles above the earth. Big Bird, 55 ft. long and 10 ft. wide, is equipped with electronic listening equipment along with black-and-white, color and infrared television and still cameras. It is able to make a low orbital pass at an altitude of 90 miles and take extraordinarily detailed photographs, which give U.S. intelligence information on Russian and Chinese harvests as well as clues to secret weapon construction. On one mission over the Soviet Union, Big Bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Motto Is: Think Big, Think Dirty | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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