Word: misha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paradoxical? "Misha" is more than that. He is an enigma compounded of moody shyness, bold theatricality, post-adolescent intellectual pretense and a sweetness that makes him melt at the sight of an appealing house pet. But that is how it should be for the newest, brightest star in an art that is itself a series of paradoxes. What other discipline demands of its practitioners that they train like athletes and sweat like stevedores in order to achieve romantic effects of the most ethereal nature? What other art places such emphasis on tradition, yet depends on such unreliable resources-the kinesthetic...
...dancers. It is less than a year since he broke away from a Soviet touring company in Toronto, but the public has already made him a superstar and calls him by his nickname. To discourage long lines last winter, a ticket outlet in Manhattan put up a sign saying "Misha tickets all sold...
...John Misha Petkevich '73, one of the founders of the skating show and the 1971 North American Men's Champion, has returned from England, where he is currently a Rhodes scholar, to attend the two-day event, but he will not skate...
...John Misha Petkevich '73, 1971 North American Men's Figure-Skating Champion, will perform with other U.S. and Canadian skating medalists this weekend at Watson Rink in the fourth annual "An Evening with Champions" Eliot House benefit skating exhibition...
...decline in service. Two weeks ago, Spanish Pianist Alicia de Larrocha struggled valiantly with the stiff action of a Steinway at a recital near Washington, D.C., after a local dealer's technician denied her request for a minor adjustment, insisting that the instrument was in "perfect condition." Misha Dichter, 27, still smarts from the rebuff of a tuner in St. Paul who responded to his complaint about the house piano: "Listen, young whippersnapper, Liberace played it and he liked...