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...young god." He is blond, handsome and ruggedly virile, with the physique of a football tight end (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.). His dancing is strong and clear, the picture of disciplined power and instinctive authority. Yet unlike his great contemporaries Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev, Martins is not a magnet for the media. His impact has been almost entirely through his role as leading male dancer with the New York City Ballet, a company where the choreography rather than the performer is designed to star...
...trends. Washington Reporter Jim Castelli was once religion editor of the Washington Star. Reporter-Researcher Michael Harris attended a Roman Catholic seminary for five years, and taught ancient and medieval philosophy, Latin and Greek at another seminary for three. New York Correspondent Bruce van Voorst has interviewed theologians from Rudolf Bultmann to Hans Küng, while Chicago Correspondent J. Madeleine Nash covered the final days of Bernardin's controversial predecessor, the late John Cardinal Cody. Says she: "After the remoteness of the old-style bishops, Bernardin seems refreshingly approachable...
...German environmental groups, demanded that the manifesto outlining the demonstration's purpose also criticize the arms buildup in the Soviet Union and not concentrate solely on the U.S. But the Greens were repeatedly shouted down by a loud contingent of Communists and sympathizers. Complained exiled East German Economist Rudolf Bahro, a leading member of the Greens, before the microphone was yanked out of his hands: "These people are ready to compromise as long as they can be sure Brezhnev has enough rockets to secure peace." Having packed the house with supporters, the Communists rammed through their own platform condemning...
...week Nureyev is performing nightly with the Boston Ballet in his own production of Don Quixote. Although watching him is still a thrill, his technical shortcomings are especially conspicuous in the role of Basilio. This romantic lead requires a more blithe, more innocently carefree personality than comes naturally to Rudolf Nureyev the world-wise and world-weary. Nureyev's cockiness and arrogance overpower principal dancer Marie-Christine Mouis (who alternates the role of Kitri-Dulcinea with Laura Young): in his arms, she seems nervous, skittish, more than a trifle unsure of her suitor's affections...
...Nureyev--true, he turns 43 this week; true, he doesn't leap so high as he used to; and true, his performance is not a model of precision. But for arrogant sexiness, for self-confident cockiness, for unmistakable style, for sheer class, he's got it all. Rudolf Nureyev may be an old dog, but the needs no new tricks...