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...likes to dance with him, cook for him, anything but rehearse with him. ''We are both very critical, and we tell each other the truth.'' Offstage, she shows little of the fire that ignites her performances, but perhaps she does not need to. Says Elena Tchernichova, an A.B.T. ballet mistress and former Kirov dancer: ''God didn't make a single mistake with this girl.'' ALESSANDRA FERRI. No one would ever picture Ferri as a drowsing Oriental beauty. She seems made for motion: wraith-thin, bonelessly supple, with enormous dark eyes that radiate intensity. It is easy to see why Mikhail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THREE WHO CAPTURE THE MAGIC New ballerinas from Italy, Russia and France are revelations | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...fact, those involved with BDSM say the behavior may be linked to success. Mistress Kimberley, an experienced dominatrix in London, says well-paid professionals make up the bulk of her clientèle; they fork over between $300 and $500 per hour for services ranging from a "sensual tie and tease" to "severe bondage and domination torture." Her clients' high-powered lives make them eager to submit. "They're running multimillion-dollar companies and make decisions all day, every day," she says. "They genuinely want to be submissive. They want somebody to treat them like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just A Little Harmless English S&M | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...customers with a smile. Then, according to highly specific instructions laid out in the company handbook, they take, prepare and deliver orders. But in a twist on the concept that the customer is king, the wait staff's salutation is sudar or sudarynia, archaic Russian terms for "master" and "mistress." Teremok's fare consists not of American-style burgers but of Russian-style blini, the traditional thin pancakes, delivered with chain-restaurant consistency at fast-food prices. For 43 rubles (less than $2), you can have a blini with butter; for 182 rubles (about $7.50), you get your fast-food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Czar of Crepes | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...unnamed “family friend” of Norman K. Mailer ’43 raised questions about the intentions of Harvard’s purchase of an archive from his long-term mistress Carole Mallory, according to the Boston Globe. In Saturday’s Boston Globe, a family friend of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner said Harvard’s purchase of Mallory’s archive was a spiteful response to Mailer’s $2.5 million sale to the University of Texas in 2005. “Harvard wanted Norman to give them...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: More Trouble for Mailer Archive | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...Through the latter half of kindergarten and first grade, the classes make about eight trips to the theater; Kevin Kline offered tips on how to fence as he did in Cyrano de Bergerac, and the cast from Spring Awakening have shared their vocal warm-up techniques. The wardrobe mistress from Wicked showed the kids where the nooks and crannies are hidden in the show's lavish costumes to allow the leading ladies to hang from ropes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grade School Impresarios | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

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