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...closing, let me forewarn balletomaines that though Maya Plisetskaya, second only to Ulanov in the Bolshoi Ballet, does make an appearance, it is a very short one. For 75 seconds, she dances through a droopily choreographed pastiche of ballet and burlesque. She does not, for quite understandable reasons, seem at all interested in the shoddy proceedings...
...press notices were less ecstatic but favorable. On the last night of the troupe's three-day Moscow stint-they will return later, after touring other Russian cities-the audience included Russian Composer Aram Khatchaturian and Bolshoi Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who was heard to murmur about one of the company's modern works: "I wish they would create something like that...
...ancient cultures that arose in Mexico long before the time of Columbus, the Maya is the most renowned. But in the last decade, scholars have become increasingly entranced by the people who once lived around the village of Remojadas near the modern seaport of Veracruz. In speaking of these people, archaeologists use the phrase "the smiling-face complex." for almost every clay figure that is unearthed adds to a growing gallery of grins, chuckles, chortles and belly laughs. A new book called More Human Than Divine, published in both Spanish and English by the National University of Mexico, tells...
...dancing, though, is what matters, and it is magnificent. Maya Plisetskaya, the public favorite among Russia's younger ballerinas, dances the double role of Odette-Odile with a mixture of faultless precision, lyric grace and sheer animal power; Nicolai Fadeyechev as the Prince and Vladimir Levashev as the Evil Spirit are virile, commanding performers. On the other hand, the ballet itself is simply an arrant Arcadian anachronism, and Tchaikovsky's music, except for a few eddies of glorious melody, fills Swan Lake with sugar water. But along with all its faults, the picture provides U.S. ballet-goers...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). How did the Aztec and Maya Indians - who almost surely never saw an elephant - come to put the big beasts in their art and writings? Johns Hopkins Geographer George Carter tackles the intriguing question in Elephants Are Where You Find Them...