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...least the 10th time in 38 years, Jerome Robbins is returning to West Side Story. It was the great showman's most brilliant idea, resetting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet among teenage street gangs in the 1950s. Slang may change and violence levels escalate, but the drama of the star-crossed city kids has never dated, nor has its appeal diminished. For the choreographer, now 76, the show has become a personal rite of renewal. Last week he renewed it once more, this time as a suite of dances for the New York City Ballet...
...pride. "What I remember most about the war is the movies," she says. "They were dozens of World War II movies, but they were so blatantly propagandistic. All the Nazis were portrayed as idiots, and the Soviets as great heroes. We had a phrase, kino nemetskoe, which is slang for a show so ridiculous you cannot believe it." Of the time after the war she says, "It was stable, we did not fear anything, there was not this tremendous sense of insecurity as now. The main thing is we do not know what will happen next here. Before, you could...
Adolescence had not yet been invented when R.L.S. reached his late teens, but he seems to have been a prototype. In college he took the pose of dilettantism to extremes, reacting to parental strictness (his father fined him a penny for each slang word he uttered) by rarely showing up for classes. When law exams loomed, he persuaded a friendly doctor to say he was too ill to face them and should be sent off on vacation. In both Edinburgh and London he prowled the seedier neighborhoods late at night, sometimes dressed as a gentleman, sometimes as a ruffian, noting...
Whatever the alchemy that makes a star of a fine singer, Terfel has it. All his Metropolitan Opera performances this fall in the title role of The Marriage of Figaro and as Leporello in Don Giovanni "went clean" -- theatrical slang for sold out -- before the first curtain went up, and there were scuffles in the line for tickets to his New York City lieder recital last month. Onstage his presence is riveting. Both Figaro and Leporello are servants, but there is no trace of the oaf or the buffoon in Terfel's portrayals. In both parts he can be physically...
Chiles was all courtliness: "And if I might reply to you in Cracker?" (a slang term for descendants of white Floridian pioneers). "I know how to lead. I know how to sell," he said, launching into an example. "Now," he concluded, "do you understand Cracker?" If Bush wants to hand Chiles his first defeat in 36 years of public life, he may need a few lessons...