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...skater." says John Curry firmly." I believe that the word skater has the same value as the word dancer." In fact, Curry is both an ice skater who dances and a ballet dancer who ice skates. The title of his new show, which opened at Manhattan's Felt Forum last week: Ice Dancing...
...whatever name it goes, however, Curry's show, which includes twelve other talented skater-dancers, is one of the most sumptuous treats of this year's holiday season, two hours of fascinating movement and sometimes astonishing beauty. It is at once brand new, perhaps even pioneering, and reassuringly familiar, the combination of two long-established disciplines to create something strikingly fresh and original...
Enormously strong, Hull was as graceful as a figure skater, and he became the biggest attraction in hockey history. He was also one of the cleanest players in the game. In 1972 he joined the Winnipeg Jets in the new World Hockey Association and immediately became both its most solid asset and most expensive liability: his contract gave him a reported $2.75 million over a ten-year period. But age inevitably slowed his stride, and despondent over his recent divorce, he quit after 22 years in hockey. In 1,447 games, he had scored 1,012 goals (second only...
...Opportunities Program has signed up 60 companies, found slots for 26 would-be Olympians, and has 50 awaiting placement. Carol Brown has given up truck driving and has a soft-drink marketing job in Seattle, plus a chance to pursue her daily conditioning without fear of being fired. Speed Skater Peter Mueller, winner of a gold medal in the men's 1,000-meter event in 1976, is working for Miller's Canteen Corp., and Augie Hirt, one of the nation's top race-walkers, is employed by Continental Bank in Chicago...
...stage in an open rectangle, clustered in a small circle, dipped into a deepening zigzag, or fell to the floor in a smooth oval, their long gowns floating out around them like water lily-pads. When the curtain fell, the patterns lingered in the mind like a figure-skater's traces...