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These are just a few of the examples of the nightmares managers experience during the season. In dealing with problems of this nature, the manager is often forced to make "split-second decisions," according to one veteran who has experienced his share of the unexpected. While these decisions are often necessary, a good manager will try to plan ahead so he won't be forced to make them...
...eleven men performing eleven separate actions in pursuit of a common goal-to move the ball forward. There is the balletic grace of a halfback on the open field, pirouetting from tackles with the practiced ease of Nureyev spinning through a double tour en l'air, or the split-second timing of a wide receiver and a quarterback on a 50-yd. pass completion...
...curious achievements of Russia's Moiseyev dance company, which opened its first U.S. tour in five years at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House this month, is to make folk dance seem almost aristocratic in spirit. What country commoners could ever attempt, let alone master, those split-second polka whirls and partner changes, those muscle-straining priziadkas done at trip-hammer speed, those leaping, Olympic-height splits? This is dancing performable only by a gifted few-a disciplined and rhythmic elite of superbly talented athletes...
...goes through its paces. And this extends to the stage-crew too. As the scenes skip about from Roussillon to Paris to Florence to Marseilles, Marsha Eck's backdrops and panels rise and fall swiftly without noise or jerkiness, and her set-pieces roll in from the sides with split-second timing. I cannot recall the last time I saw a complex production with such impeccably well-oiled mechanics. If you don't mind an All's Well done as though it were As You Like It, this is the show...
Verkade has a gift for freezing an action at its most expressive moment. Connoisseurs with the special expertise of Hank Greenberg's son Glenn praise the split-second accuracy of his baseball players. "The guy," says one admirer, "has a stroboscopic eye." But Verkade goes far beyond mere reportage. He has an instinct for attitude and gesture that invites comparison with Degas and, in another medium, Daumier. He can catch the slump of an old man's shoulders as he sits alone on a park bench, waiting for nothing; the sweet awkwardness of a young mother holding...