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...This recently surfaced rumor isn't mentioned in the new biography of the most celebrated male ballet dancer of the postwar era. But even so, Nureyev's list of lovers was quite sufficiently star studded. (Did they or didn't they? Only Mick Jagger knows for sure.) Fortunately, Diane Solway is interested in more than just gossip, and her fact-crammed, plainly written chronicle is the most detailed and dependable account to date of Nureyev's hectic life. What fails to come through, oddly enough, is his artistry--if you never saw him dance, this book won't tell...
RUDOLF NUREYEV The Russian dancer's 1961 defection from the U.S.S.R. to the U.S. made headlines. In Nureyev, author Diane Solway looks at his glittering career onstage and his fascinating life behind the scenes...
SCOTLAND: The village of Rockcliffe in Kirkcudbrightshire (pronounced Cur-coo-bree-sher) in southwest Scotland lies at the end of the Moors Road and overlooks the silvery waters of the Solway Firth. Just outside the village on a high, rocky peak, a group of young archaeological students, under the direction of Lloyd R. Laing of the University of Liverpool, spent five weeks trying to find the palace of King Urien of Rheged, as part of their course for a degree in ancient and medieval history and archaeology. The site, which is a citadel with ramparts, dates back to the early...
Fraser is so far best known as the spoofing inventor of Henry Paget Flashman (Flashman, 1969, and Royal Flash, 1970), the compleat bounder. He thus comes to the reivers with an acute understanding of unsporting behavior. It stands him in excellent stead. After Henry VIII defeated the Scots at Solway Moss in 1542, for example, the fleeing survivors were held for ransom by their own border countrymen...
William Turner's characteristic abstract, impressionistic style comes across more effectively in his blue and grey wash of Solway Moss, Cumberland than in the resulting brown graphic illustration; the precise lines of etching and engraving have precluded the emotion of the dynamic Turner landscape...