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...across the stage. Rising onto her toes, she pirouettes daintily. The audience starts to giggle. If her style is classic, Karpova's form decidedly is not. No long-limbed Balanchine girl she. At 5 ft. 6½ in., 160 lbs., Karpova's silhouette more closely resembles a sack of potatoes than a royal bird. The house shakes with laughter as her playmates, a brawny quartet of swans who differ vastly in shape and size, galumph through the imaginary forest. Disdainfully, the Black Rhinestone of Russian Ballet-as Karpova is called in the program notes-sinks into a deep...
...resurrection. But he had been circumcised in the temple as an infant, and the Holy Foreskin, preserved by a succession of devout guardians, is said to have found its way eventually into the sanctum sanctorum of the Vatican. A German mercenary laid his rude hands on it during the Sack of Rome in 1527 and stole it away; it was lost for 30 years and then turned up in Calcata, where this new reliquary was made for it. It has been there, but not on public view, ever since. How edifying, the accidents of history...
...Pour the sack and pop the bubbly Slosh the Chivas and slosh it doubly. On Dancer, on Prancer, on Donner, on Blitzen...
...workers. Most physicians remained politely on duty in their hospitals, but they refused to do all routine work. At Middlesex Hospital, one of London's best, 200 striking doctors unveiled a banner made of used operating smocks, each bearing a large handprinted letter. The banner said: END DICTATORSHIP. SACK MRS. CASTLE...
...most of my generation will never forget Nov. 22. anyone around Los Angeles that day will never forget Feb. 9, 1971.1 was hitting the sack about 4 a.m., after entertaining some visiting firemen. An hour and 59 minutes later all hell broke loose. My first reaction was that some unforeseen force was trying to break down the walls of my room. It wasn't a nightmare; the building was moving...