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...dancer, choreographer and teacher who had been director or co-director of the San Francisco Ballet since 1952; of a heart attack; in Burlingame, Calif. He started his career in the 1930s as America's first major male star, dancing for George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein in a precursor of today's New York City Ballet. Creator of such popular, diverse works as Filling Station and Con Amore, Christensen, with his dancing brothers Harold and Willam, helped to build the quality of ballet in the western...
...Martha's Vineyard, it is so consistently picturesque you almost expect to see Whistler's name in the credits. The main problem with Ivory's Europeans were the Europeans themselves, who were about as scandalous as an invasion of nannies. The Bostonians, thankfully, sheds the genteel anemia of its precursor. Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay, and the memorable cast--Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Linda Hunt and Madeleine Potter--are responsible for the success...
...brain. Prostaglandins also increase circulation to the damaged area, causing the swelling and redness known as inflammation. The purpose of this is to attract infection-fighting blood cells that will ward off any invading bacteria. Since the days of Hippocrates, doctors have been relieving pain with salicylic acid, a precursor to aspirin that was derived from willow bark, but only in the past 15 years have they understood that it works by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins. Tylenol (the most common brand of acetaminophen) works much the same way, as do popular prescription analgesics like Clinoril (sulindac), Motrin (ibuprofen...
...chuckles. Says he: "I'm not going to run with that ball." Of their common craft, Shirley says wistfully, "Maybe I wanted him to need me more than he did." Warren says of her book Out on a Limb: "My film Heaven Can Wait was sort of a precursor of what she wrote...
...giant cabinets that fill each floor of the building, scientists store collections of an incredible array of creatures, from the largest bird in the world to the smallest owl, fossils of the earliest known life or fossilized mammoths. In all, the museum houses collections of almost every historical precursor to men, including a marine biology section...