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...element that the audience had no more fear of her falling than of a fish drowning. ABC's Jim McKay, offering television's best-turned phrase of the week, described her as "swimming in an ocean of air." Reassured by Nadia's self-confidence, the sellout crowds (scalpers got $200 for $16 tickets) gasped not in apprehension but with delight and awe. Indeed, Nadia seemed as at home on the balance beam as Br'er Rabbit was in the brier patch-hopping about as if she were born there...
...thus the danger that Lebanon would remain a theater of quarrels between the moderate and radical Arab states now directly intervening in the country. The rightist Christians in Lebanon, meanwhile, were distrustful of the Pan-Arab peace-keeping force. Moreover, with the Palestinian-Moslem leftist alliance worried about a sellout of its interests and the Israelis ever watchful of threats to their security, the emerging new balance remained at best fragile, the most recent ceasefire as shaky and uncertain as all those that preceded...
...high-kicking hoofer, Shirley MacLaine put her foot in a strange place last week. Her mouth. After a sellout tour through Europe with her song-and-dance revue, MacLaine was booked into the Palace Theater for her first Broadway stage appearance since The Pajama Game 22 years ago. How nice to be back in "the Karen Quinlan of cities," said Shirley, comparing the life expectancy of New York with that of the young New Jersey woman, whose tragic yearlong coma stirred a lingering right-to-life court battle. MacLaine's audience, including Jackie Onassis and Congresswoman Bella Abzug...
While Actor Richard Burton continues his sellout run in the Broadway play Equus, Daughter Kate Burton, 18, has staged her own theatrical debut. Kate, a Brown University freshman whose mother is Richard's first wife, Sybil Christopher, speaks six lines in her college's production of Look Homeward, Angel."I don't know if I'll continue acting," she says. "I'm just doing it for fun right now." Papa Burton, 50, seems less tentative about his daughter's future. "She's not interested in going into the theater," he asserts...
...School prides itself on its quickness to spot trends. When Watergate broke out, officials cobbled together a Crisis in Government course taught by Eugene McCarthy and Law Professors Raoul Berger and Philip Kurland. The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer match in 1972 prompted a sellout course on chess strategy. Says Allen Austill, dean of the school: "It's education in the marketplace. We can jump at things that look good. If they fade, they fade...