Word: petite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medium. The 29-year-old Nureyev, on the other hand, still triumphs through personal magnetism and the passionate abandon of his spectacularly athletic portrayals. As Adam in the first New York performance of Roland Petit's acrobatic modern parable, Paradise Lost, he bounced, somersaulted and writhed with fiery grace against a backdrop of pop-art settings-and at one point took a breathtaking dive between the painted lips on a huge poster of Eve's face (TIME, March 3). "He keeps revealing new sides," said Bruhn. "Paradise Lost is a new medium for him, very good...
...born to the purple, the lad wrote the one-act play, entitled An Unfortunate Encounter, to win a boys' magazine prize for the best playlet in verse. His dream of glory involved the dire meeting of a traveler, a brigand and a gendarme in the forest. After le petit Charles won the prize, Encounter was printed in 50 copies, and now one of them is enshrined in the French National Library. The youthful masterpiece lay buried there, but last week a columnist for Le Figaro learned of another rat-chewed copy, unearthed by a book collector, and brought...
...Argentine military has a remarkably flexible definition of stable government. The military will hand over the government to the civilians again only when they are convinced that the workers are finished with their revolutionary ideology -- only when the workers have a firm platform which satisfies the industrialists and the petit bourgeois, and which pays off the military...
...chatter of the customers does not bother him, especially since they put up to $200 a week in tips on his piano. His secret, he explains, is that "I don't play at them; I make them come to me." - Norman Wallace, at Chicago's Mon Petit, is a singer in the tradition of Mabel Mercer-quiet, cool, reassuring. In the '40s, he wrote songs for Edith Piaf; later he tried his hand at musicals in New York before migrating to Chicago, where he leavens a Continental repertory with up-tempo show tunes and a few Beatle...
Paris has Pharaonic fever-all because of 45 objects from the tomb of Egypt's boy king, Tutankhamen (circa 1358 B.C.), which recently began a four-month stay at the Petit Palais. The event is hardly news: King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922. But ever since the exhibition opened, Parisians waiting to get in have jammed the Avenue Churchill with serpentine lines five bodies thick...