Word: slipper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young ballerina, it was an object lesson in precision and prerogative. Too intent on one of her moves in Giselle at Trieste's Teatro Verdi Opera House, 20-year-old Giovanna Mariani accidentally touched down on the slipper of the ballet's star, Rudolf Nureyev. Instantly, so gracefully that he did not miss a step, the temperamental Russian slapped her full across the face. Giovanna fled in tears but returned after five minutes and finished the performance. Next day she set out to teach Nureyev an object lesson of her own -by filing assault charges against...
Critics are feared for the damage they can do to reputations, but they are probably at legist as dangerous when they turn kingmaker. After the deaths of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, several of them rushed around trying to fit on someone a dubious glass slipper marked "Greatest Living American Novelist." As a result, some would-be Cinderellas look pinched before their time...
...Schuller makes a most persuasive case for the argument that the beauties of jazz "are those of any great, compelling musical experience: expressive fervor, intense artistic commitment and an intuitive sense for structural logic." Who knows? If the slipper fits, music's Cinderella may one day even go to live in the castle of esthetic status, cultural respectability and all that...
...gold remained buried in the nearby Sierra Nevada Mountains. The investment was peanuts compared with the gold mines Hughes has already picked up. In 15 months he has spent $125 million in the state, last month closed deals for Las Vegas' Stardust Hotel ($30.7 million) and Silver Slipper Saloon ($5,400,000) and their gambling casinos, giving him six hotels and 15% of all the action in Nevada...
...play in sequence. Although the instruments were plugged into a bank of ten loudspeakers (with four technicians at the potentiometers, or volume controls), the audience strolled around the stage to pick up sounds from every angle. One player improvised his own percussion by borrowing a woman's slipper and rapping it on the platform. After four hours. Conductor Karlheinz Stockhausen finished Ensemble and, with many of his musicians still playing, led them off to a hotel for dinner...