Word: rudy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rudi's catch against the left field wall...
...color and 146 black-and-white pictures, most of them previously unpublished, that illustrate this big, handsome book. Dance Critic Clive Barnes' chronicle charts the dancer's career back to its beginnings in the remote Bashkir Republic of the U.S.S.R., where, as a teenager, Rudi jumped and twirled in local folk dances. Battling the disapproval of his Tatar father, a Communist commissar, the youth made his way into Leningrad's celebrated Kirov company. Following his defection in Paris in 1961, he danced non-stop in virtually every Western company except the New York City Ballet...
...result of the almost routine serendipity that seems to be the hallmark of good journalists. As the bomb that was to kill Gemayel was edging toward detonation, TIME Correspondent David Halevy was at the reception desk of the Hotel Alexandre in East Beirut checking out. TIME Staff Photographer Rudi Frey was at the hotel bar having a beer. David Rubinger, another veteran TIME photographer, was upstairs packing. The three were in effect calling it a day, just like everybody else. "Trusting that a new and quieter era had begun in Lebanon," says Halevy, "we all believed that this would...
Later in the morning TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish, Photographer Rudi Frey and I set out on a tour. So far the bombs and shells have been confined to known Palestinian areas. They have not struck the commercial heart of West Beirut. We drive to the Carlton Hotel, atop a hill in once fashionable Raouche, gently argue our way past the guerrillas guarding the building and climb 14 floors to look over toward the airport, Sports City and the wealthy district called Ramlet al Baida...
Wilber, the editor of the Cambridge based ReVision, "the journal of consciousness and change," has written three previous books with titles such as The Spectrum of Consciousness and The Atman Project. They have all been published by the Rudi Foundation, a Lincoln, Nebraska based organization that subsidizes the study of the human mind through its sales of oriental rugs, making it a sort of fringe Ford Foundation Before Doubleday signed up Wilber, his book could only be found in stores that also sold incense and Tarot cards...