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...this line for 28 years, and I don't see how it could have happened." The old conductor's voice echoed in the tunnel between Copley and Auditorium. In the dimness before us the streetcar splayed incongruously across the width of the tunnel. Emergency workers hovered about it uncertainly, shook their heads, spat, conferred in short spurts of strategy. Occasionally they would seek advice from the telephones that seemed to grow out of the cave walls. In the dark unfamiliar tube the men spoke softly, as if not wanting to disturb an accident victim...
...brother was trying to say thank you, to say you gave me something and now I will try to do something for you," Guizar said. He shook his head. "I just think it's fantastic...
...great ballerinas, from Maria Tallchief to Suzanne Farrell. Then in April 1968, after the shock of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, he decided that it was time to do something for black people. His first move was to approach the eminent American dance teacher Karel Shook, then ballet master of the Netherlands National Ballet...
...Ballet people sometimes say that black people's backs are built wrong or that their behinds are too big," says Shook. "So blacks do have behinds and the girls do have bosoms." Scoffs Mitchell, "It is talent and training that make a ballet dancer." That is not to say that he does not have his own special outlook. He maintains there is something distinctive about a black dancer. "It is not that black people have more rhythm, as is generally believed, it's that their rhythm is built on the pulse and the heartbeat. Black people are loose...
...audience saw a troupe whose accomplishments belie its youth: the average age is 20. Tall torsos, high arms and limbs stretched toward infinity-the two dozen young dancers burst with vitality. "It's a marriage of the nobility of the Watusi with the aristocracy of Louis XIV," says Shook...