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...appearance of his dances. This little romp takes place in a bright, white envelope. The performers wear Florence Klotz's body suits in black (Sean Lavery), white (Ib Andersen) or thrilling primary colors (red for Kyra Nichols, blue for Maria Calegari, lighter blue for the five additional men and pollen-yellow for the female corps of five). With marvelous physical mastery, they whirl and prance, graceful and playful as gods. There is neither poetry nor memory here, just an endless sunny...
...endow it with a still greater sense of nuance, while leaving his master's tyrannous physicality behind. To look at his fētes champětres -those felicitously idealized gatherings of young lovers, planted on the unchanging lawn of a social Eden-is to think of pollen and silk, not flesh. Watteau was a great painter of the naked body, but his nudes tend to privacy and reflection. They are completely unlike Rubens' magniloquent blond wardrobes. He seems, for this reason, the more erotic artist...
...President cannot live on jelly beans alone. Less well known than his eye for candy is Ronald Reagan's taste for bee pollen, a powdery substance that many health-food devotees consider a wonder food. Though unsupported by scientifc evidence, advocates tout it as a preventive for everything from impotence to aging. When Reagan wants a bee-pollen snack, he can now reach for something named in his honor, a candy bar called the President's Lunch...
...snack's creator, 67-year-old Bruce Brown of Scottsdale, Ariz., introduced the President's Lunch last November in a patriotic-looking red-silver-and-blue wrapper. Besides bee pollen, the ingredients include rolled oats, peanut butter, kelp, sunflower seeds and raisins. Brown predicts health-food fans will be abuzz about the bar this summer, when the 1.3-oz. snack becomes widely available in supermarkets for about...
Brown's company, C.C. Pollen, is the largest seller of the substance in the U.S. Brown sneers at conventional candy bars, describing them as "semipoison," and points to Reagan's vigor at 73 as evidence of bee pollen's healthful effects. "Just look at him," says Brown of the President. "This is one of the few bars you can eat that will improve your health...