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...Ashley reached the perihelion when Balanchine choreographed the first of two ballets for her, Ballo della Regina. She recalls that the steps were "like loose change in his pocket." Robert Maiorano's book, written with Valerie Brooks, is an attempt to organize and explain those fabulous coins. A former soloist at City Ballet, Maiorano watched Mozartiana (1981), the choreographer's last substantial work, take shape in the rehearsal studio. As an effort to analyze creation, the book is not really successful. Maiorano cannot bring steps to life in words; nor are there photo sequences, such as the ones in Ashley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Balanchiniana Dancing for Balanchine | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...factor contributing to water damage was the highest tide since record keeping began in the early 1920s. This rare flow was aided by the unusual and simultaneous occurrence of three astronomical events: 1) the earth was within days of its closest approach to the sun, the perihelion; 2) the moon was at its closest approach to the center of the earth, the perigee; and 3) the moon's and sun's gravitational pulls were in alignment at the full moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 28, 1983 | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...distance from the sun. The Martian north pole is currently tilted toward the sun only when the planet is also at its greatest distance, or aphelion, from the sun. In contrast, the southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun at the planet's closest approach, or perihelion. As a result, the southern polar cap gets warm enough to evaporate almost completely each summer, releasing most of its dry ice into the atmosphere. The northern polar region, however, remains cold enough during summer to retain a large and relatively thick polar cap throughout the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Martian Monsoons | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...Ikeya-Seki has been visible in the southeastern sky just before sunrise each morning. It has been moving toward the sun at the rate of about 2° a day. It will reach perihelion (closest point to the sun) shortly after midnight (E.D.T.) on Oct. 21; during hours of darkness, it may be visible to the naked eye. Though the comet's tail will show up most clearly on the West Coast, Easterners may also be able to see it during the night. Then, shortly before dawn on the East Coast, the head of the comet should appear above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Splendor in the Night | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...trade, which produces some books that give genuine inspiration as well as some of the most enervating and profitable books known to publishing, purveys non-religion in endless series of similarly named volumes, all of them containing at least one poem by Joyce Kilmer. This curious subindustry reached its perihelion a couple of years ago with Presbyterian Minister Franklin Loehr's The Power of Prayer on Plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Era of Non-B | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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