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...company came to France with 90 dancers (another 100-odd are performing at home) and a 70-piece orchestra. Mostly the repertory is taken from the Kirov's gallery of classics-Swan Lake, Giselle, La Sylphide, La Bayadère-but there are a few modern works, including Maurice Béjart's Bhakti and a new work choreographed by Oleg Vinogradov, the Kirov's director. To Vinogradov the mix is about right. "This company is good enough to do any kind of choreography," he says, "but we are proud of our reputation as a museum...
...ultralight's surge in popularity is almost surreal too. There are 10,000 to 15,000 in the air, about twice as many as there were two years ago. The 30-odd manufacturers of the Dacron-and-aluminum birds, which range in price from $4,000 to $6,000, expect to sell some $90 million worth this year. Unlike many outdoor fads, ultramania is not limited to the Sunbelt, although California, Arizona, Florida and Texas are strong states; the Midwest, particularly the St. Louis area, is also ultra country, possibly because the craft fares best over flat terrain...
...labors. Woman was born to complain: "You never pay any attention to me." More divorce wars seem to start with this skirmish than with anything else these days, and the virtues of Smash Palace begin with the simple fact that it has observed the phenomenon closely and painfully. Odd that we have to look as far away as New Zealand (not exactly one of our major movie centers) for what may be the most melodramatic but also the most acutely motivated film yet about divorce...
...fact make the Port Stanley strip unusable, meant that the British had virtually destroyed Argentina's ability to resupply its roughly 10,000 troops in the Falklands. The air assault had also considerably eased the task of protecting the British task force of 60-odd ships, some of which were now on battle stations within a few miles of the Falklands. In addition, the attack prepared the way for a possible full-scale invasion of the islands. According to the Argentines, the British task force commander, Rear Admiral John ("Sandy") Woodward, who celebrated his 50th birthday...
...week), he abruptly abandoned income and respectability to take his family off to Paris. His passionate determination, he said, was "to write the poems I wanted to write and not the poems I was writing." Last week, when he died at 89 in Boston, MacLeish's 40-odd volumes of poetry, plays and commentary had won official rewards ranging from honorary doctorates (Columbia, Dartmouth, the University of Illinois) to three Pulitzer Prizes (1932, 1953, 1959) to the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977). Yet the conflicts between what he wrote and what he wanted to write remained forever unresolved...