Word: raffa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his senior year in college, Cuomo shyly introduced himself to a popular, curly-haired girl named Matilda Raffa. She remembers him as serious and religious, the kind of boy, her mother told her, who would never hurt her. Andrew Cuomo recalls how when he first started dating, his father told him not to forget that the girl he was taking out that night was somebody's sister. When Cuomo proposed to Matilda, he was in his first year of law school; she remembers that he gave her a lecture on the Catholic Church's teaching about birth control...
...space he defines with whipping spins, sudden leaps followed by trancelike stillness-comes a very young woman in red (Deirdre Carberry) to be partnered through soupy Glazounov waltz tunes. That is no easy job, since this muse is coltish and blithely selfabsorbed. Three more young women (Elaine Kudo, Nancy Raffa, Amanda McKerrow), wearing costumes that suggest old-fashioned pinafores, glide in and out. At the end, his red-geranium partner's having vanished, Baryshnikov is hypnotized by the retreating figure of McKerrow...