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BOLSHOI BALLET. The key to the enduring Bolshoi mystique is its magnitude: the colossal technical prowess of its dancers, their grandeur of emotion, the elaborate theatrical productions. Alas, on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera the gallant dancers often sag beneath the weighty spectacle of the frantic choreography of Director Yuri Grigorovich. Yet Giselle, the company's corner stone, abounds in fresh lyrical dancing and finely drawn characterizations. Radiant young Ludmila Semenyaka and Vyacheslav Gordeyev, a powerful classical dancer, should win fans during the Bolshoi's nine-city national tour...
...between words and the spaces between people, is at the Loeb Ex this weekend. Like most of Pinter, it doesn't offer what many theater-goers consider the chief rewards of drama--confrontation, character development, eloquence. Pinter's meanings are usually clear and worth discovering, but sometimes his plays sag. If the cast and director bring subtlety and understated power to the production, though, it can hardly lose. Tonight...
...actors--most notably the two stars and girl who plays Audran's daughter--infuse their roles with such life that they almost bound off the screen and take on three full dimensions. Chabrol was extradinorily lucky to have access to these quality performances, because when the story begins to sag--as it does in too many places--the actors manage to carry things along until the narrative begins to pick up again...
...there. In sports, in education, in politics, Philadelphia has traditionally been the butt of disparaging jokes. Philly is, after all, a dead town, a city of losers. The best thing you can say for the people there is that they know when they are beat. These days, Philadelphians sag with the sickening knowledge that they are in for yet another defeat...
...excessive bravado, Israel announced during the first day of fighting that schools would stay in session. The Allenby Bridge from Jordan was kept open to traffic, and, after briefly shutting down, Lod Airport was opened to international traffic. But as the fighting went on, civilian morale began to sag. "Oh God," said a housewife in Jerusalem last week as she went about preparations for Sukkoth, "we thought that this war would last for only two days...