Word: rudy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every dancer needs a claque, and Rudolf Nureyev, 29, commands a classier grade of palm beater than most. For the opening in Stockholm of the Swedish Royal Opera Company's Nutcracker Suite, which he choreographed, Rudi invited Lee Radziwill, 34, to fly over from London to admire his work. She applauded so well that he spirited her off to Monaco for a gala chez Princess Grace. Not content with two performances at the Monte Carlo Opera, Rudi fetched Lee onto the floor at the Black Jack Club for what was probably his first pas de deux anywhere...
...Throughs. No designer these days reveals more than California's Rudi Gernreich, 45, the man who shocked the world in 1964 with his topless bathing suit. No stylesetter has capitalized with more flair on the current vogue for exposure; but even his critics grant that Rudi's topless was only an incident in his rapid rise to leadership as the most way-out, far-ahead designer in the U.S. When he was inducted into Fashion's Hall of Fame this fall the sixth U.S. designer to be so honored he was hailed by the selection committee...
Gernreich confronted the problem of the miniskirt head on. Tights may take care of modesty in the wintertime, believes Rudi, but for summer they are simply too hot. "Since skirts as such are really disappearing, they have to have a different look," he announced, and proceeded to prescribe either puffy bloomers or Siamese skirts with a security panel wrapped between the legs. For braver women, he offered a wicked alternative: a black bikini bottom to match the briefest tent dress ever...
...where British promises are concerned. Early last week several dismissed talk of devaluation. "A temporary respite," said the Deutsche Bank's Hermann Abs. "Not a real solution," observed Swiss Union Bank Chairman Dr. Alfred Schaefer. "Devaluation alone would only be a temporary measure," said Bank of America President Rudi Peterson. The British are well aware that devaluation alone is not enough. Chancellor Callaghan indicated that the government would couple it with enough muscle at home to ensure a turnabout into the black in the balance of payments of "$1.2 billion a year." The giant Trades Union Congress...
...repertory only one (a restaging by Director Brian Macdonald of The Firebird) ranks as a classic standby. The other 17 range from abstract studies in pure motion to dance translations of contemporary headlines. In Stuart Hodes' Abyss, a pair of fragile lovers are attacked by three hoodlums; Rudi van Dantzig's Monument for a Dead Boy poignantly traces an adolescent's struggles against parental misunderstanding at home and the temptations of life outside, with an ambiguous outcome suggesting either death or maturity; in Sebastian, John Butler's sinuous, sensuous dance patterns turn a 17th century tale...