Word: seene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opening curtain on, exoticism was in the air. Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, embarking on a four-city, eight-week U.S. tour, chose to lead off its engagement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week with Le Corsaire, a full-length ballet that very few Americans have ever seen. The kind of diversion that appealed to 19th century audiences in Paris or St. Petersburg, Le Corsaire now seems a genuine novelty, and, like the Kirov itself, it signaled that something fresh and curious can still be found in the post- glasnost era of big tours and cultural exchanges...
...Kirov. Russell, who prepared Theme, had the harder assignment because the choreography is difficult for even Balanchine dancers. Both women learned that the no-nonsense rules they live by do not apply at the Kirov. By American standards, classes were poky. Dancers might rehearse one day and never be seen again. The principals arrived with their personal coaches, rather like gymnasts in competition, and saw no reason not to slow down the music or change the steps...
...people marching in Washington; the spontaneous rallies the day the decision was announced; the July Fourth protests that brought together thousands--women's organizations have not seen this kind of activity in years. Those who were expecting the Webster case to be a major setback for woman may find that it will become just the opposite...
...These benefits are some of the things that were never asked for years by the Harvard police that are now seen in every police contract in most municipalities and university police departments," Mederos said...
...Japan), the Peoples people are scoring an eye-popping success. They have sold some 110,000 frames through a wholesale operation and opened accounts in chichi retail outlets from Europe to Japan to Australia. Says Richard Morgenthal, president of New York City's Morgenthal-Frederics Opticians: "I have not seen a phenomenon like it in the optical world. People are asking for Peoples frames by name...