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...both funny and poignant. From the movie’s opening sequence, the stark contrast between the harsh lives of the high school students and the wealth and grace of ballroom dance becomes clear. As Dulaine shines his shoes and puts on his tuxedo and Morgan, his prima donna, puts on her gown and jewels, his soon-to-be pupils are shown lacing up their sneakers and wearing short skirts or baggy pants...
When Fidel Castro seized control of Cuba in 1959, who would have guessed that one of the items high on his agenda would be launching a national ballet company? Yet the idea fit right in with his revolutionary goal of bringing art to the masses. Castro asked Cuba's prima ballerina, Alicia Alonso, and her dancer husband Fernando how much they would need to make it happen. They said $100,000. Castro gave them $200,000. The investment has been paying off ever since...
...Lorna Feijóo, 31, Boston Ballet. Compared with her sister, she has a more lyrical, flowing style, flirting gracefully with the tempos and holding breathtaking balances en pointe in such roles as the dual leads in Swan Lake. Lorna was flourishing as a prima ballerina in Cuba's National Ballet but left anyway, along with her dancer husband Nelson Madrigal, now also a principal in Boston. That time Alonso acquiesced and gave the pair her blessing. "We need to go around the world," says Feijóo. "We need to work with different choreographers, different companies, to learn different styles, because...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but one faculty among many, precipitated Summers’ resignation on account of his demand for first-rate scholarship, his challenges of their assumptions, and his refusal to kowtow to their sense of self-importance. It is shameful that a group of cantankerous, shortsighted, prima donna academics have ended the tenure of a truly visionary president. Unlike what some of the faculty have suggested, it is not Summers who is unfit to lead, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that is incapable of being...
...President." As for critics on the Hill, a House Republican leadership aide said Cheney will remain the lawmakers' top back channel to Bush. "A hunting accident, even with their bungling, isn't going to change that. It's been helpful that the press has been so obnoxious and such prima donnas. It made people here feel sorry for the White House." Says Senator Lindsey Graham: "I've seen nothing in my dealings with the White House to suggest that this Vice President has lost any political standing within the Administration." And everyone was relieved to see Whittington emerge from...