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...ticket prices. But this week, as theater marquees flashed on, ticket offices were swamped with orders, and cabs were once again as scarce as Sunday matinees, Elder Statesman Hart was strikingly pessimistic. "This is a bought peace, on both sides. The issues have merely been swept under the rug. The theater is desperately ill; nobody realizes how shaky...
...command of Hayes's voice, and such homey essentials as faucets that dispense Scotch, bourbon and champagne. There is also a bomb shelter stocked with a three-week supply of food, water and oxygen. For further protection, Hayes installed a heavy green living-room rug that climbs up a glass wall at the press of a button. Says he: "At Hiroshima and Nagasaki, windows blew out and lots of people were killed by glass. The rug catches it. Since the rug is so heavy, it stops gamma rays and neutrons as well...
...with the Russians. "The Administration has acutely embarrassed our allies and endangered our bases," said he. "They have helped make successful negotiations with the Russians-negotiations that are vital to our survival-impossible so long as they are in power. We cannot sweep this whole sorry mess under the rug in the name of national unity...
...tells it, Choreographer George Balanchine likes to create a ballet by "opening the icebox door," rummaging around inside and producing random combinations that look "appetizing."' Sometimes he finds pretty strange things in the icebox. His latest discovery: a rug. Balanchine was inspired by an analysis by Orientalist Arthur Upham Pope of the formal structure of Persian carpets, in which the patterns were compared to polyphony in music and some of the figures to fertility symbols. The resulting work, a diverse, pseudo-Oriental affair titled The Figure in the Carpet, had its première last week with...
...first part of the ballet. Choreographer Balanchine tells the story of how the rug was woven somewhere in the desert: a swarm of ballerinas, supported by male dancers passing for nomad tribesmen, weave an elaborate cat's cradle of streamers, their movements as intricate and precise as the shuttling of a power loom. Then the story moves on to the Persian court, and the rest of the ballet is merely a "court entertainment,'' a kind of Balanchine variety show. In a swirl of color, foreign visitors to the court strut the stage dressed in everything from...