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...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...
Thus, like a peek inside some space-age incubator, began the world première last week of Roland Petit's Paradise Lost - no direct kin, obviously, to John Milton's sturdy epic of the same name. Neon eggs are unusual enough, but more unusual was the fact that the work was hatched by London's Royal Ballet, the venerable guardian of traditional repertory. What is more, the roles of Adam and Eve were danced by the foremost duo in romantic ballet, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn...
Fluid Drive. If the story line was somewhat benumbing, the dancing was dashing and vigorous. The audience, which included Princess Margaret and Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, was obviously enthralled. Nureyev's dancing was all primal passion, Fonteyn's all youthful savage grace. Petit's choreography had the clean, square-cut lines and angles of an abstract painting and included some wild acrobatics. At one point, Nureyev executed somersaults while with one hand supporting Fonteyn as she turned in arabesque...