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...were rosy Pablum -all composed as carefully as a ballet. In his Rape of the Sabine Women (see opposite page), swords and outflung arms set up triangles that play a counterpoint against the squarish architecture. Nothing is left to chance, not even the suggestive but studied pas de deux of the Sabine maidens and their Roman abductors...
...membranous setting, Tancredi is symbolically born, wobbling to life to face his first crisis. It comes in the form of two female images representing sacred and profane love. Torn between the two, he suffers a series of hallucinations and his second personality emerges. This leads to a violent, schizophrenic pas de quatre, and ultimately Tancredi No. 1 and Tancredi No. 2 are reduced to zero-death...
Student groups have attempted to set up shop in Cambridge during pas summers, but the HDC group will be the first to use Agassiz, which Mayer and Babe hope to air-condition for the summer...
...extra-long coat and high-rising pleated side vents. Cardin also likes slacks with colored stripes up the side, flowered dinner jackets, four-inch-high collars and square hats. It is not, he insists, an Edwardian look: "I never look backward. I design for tomorrow. N'est-ce pas, Nicole...
Since its conception by Marius Petipa in 1869, Don Quixote has been revised by three Russian choreographers. Even Impresario Sol Hurok got into the act: at his request, several mime sequences were telescoped to enliven the pace. The result is a bravura hodgepodge of Spanish and gypsy dances, pas de deux, a smattering of light-footed cupids and dryads and, for some obscure reason, a jig resembling a French apache dance...