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...them Nabokov, whose subject is often the nature of creativity itself. What fictional furniture there is seems of secondary importance, to be moved around at will. Tony seems negligent and disillusioned. He is married to Elizabeth, whom he "likes," but his only real involvement is an obsessive affair with Natalia Jones, the wife of another M.P. On the face of it Natalia seems a routine bitch. Her jealousy, her suicide threats, her retreat to her husband when Tony becomes serious are all clich...
Inevitably he returns to Natalia/Natalie who has "the sweetness [Natalia] and ravenousness [Natalie] of an angel." In thin disguise, Tony is really a writer and Natalie is his muse. Tony's demands on himself have no limit. He wants to find a way "through which paradoxes could be held." There are other goals. How to defeat the logic imposed by language. How to conquer the limitations on writing imposed by the fact that only a comparative solitary will write at all. As for the rest of humankind, why is it that "there is no place, except on a tightrope...
...Flying Wallenda in Author Mosley-a lot of skill and daring and not a little wobble. The unsatisfied muse, Natalie, might point out that there are too many attenuated aperçus here and too big an aesthetic load weighing on such a slight situation. But the sweet muse, Natalia, would smile upon a good writer trying to define and dramatize the mystery of creativity. In the end, Tony thinks, "If Natalia was sun and earth, I was gravity." It is a stunning metaphor for a writer's goal: the illusion that he controls, even for a euphoric moment...
...nation's oldest ballet troupe. Its star performers are second to none. Trouble is, there are almost as many styles as dancers, and more often than not, productions have a slightly underrehearsed look. Its secondary leads, and particularly the corps, vary from good to "good grief." When Natalia Makarova-the dazzling Russian defector who formerly starred with Leningrad's Kirov Ballet-floats to her forest glade in Swan Lake, the ragged corps resembles a Long Island duck farm rather than anything 19th century Choreographer Marius Petipa had in mind. Equally disheveled is a new ABT production this season...
Capitalist ways and wiles were almost too much for Ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected from Russia's Kirov Ballet in England last fall, then moved to the U.S. Returning from a visit with friends, she and her good friend and interpreter Vladimir Rodzianko found that the locks had been changed on their Manhattan apartment: Landlady Irene Epstein claimed that Natalia and Vladimir owed telephone and electricity bills and had done $1,000 worth of damage. Chort vozmi! Natalia's costumes and specially made ballet shoes were inside, and she was about to go on tour with the American...