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...image was set indelibly, warts and all, when she took off and whirled, airborne, into the stands. That was the embarrassing part. Then she went back out again, her radiant smile lighting up the arena. Among the Americans, the national champ is Kristi Yamaguchi, 21, a 5-ft. sprite from Fremont, Calif., known for her precise, delicate artistry. Runner-up is Nancy Kerrigan, 22, of Stoneham, Mass., a Kate Hepburn-style beauty whose elegance carries over into her performing style. Third -- but national champion in 1991 -- is Tonya Harding, 22, of Portland, Ore., a bold, natural athlete who pays little...
...sprite-like," Barbara Graham says, calling her son "quite gregarious and at the moment quite talkative...
Fast-forwarded or merely strict, the pace is a challenge to the dancers, particularly the ballerina who plays the heroine, Princess Aurora. She must appear to be a quicksilver sprite, but with only one intermission, the role is brutal. Of the five alternating ballerinas, the radiant Darci Kistler best maintained the illusion that she had just thought up these steps and was dancing them for the first time. Kyra Nichols stood out for the moral quality, essential in a fairy tale, that she brought to the part...
...first dramatic scene of the work, which depicts the magical tempest for which the play is named, is strangely ommitted, as is a key song of the sprite, Ariel. But Bishop often ignores the options offered her by the text. In this, the most musical of Shakespeare's plays, she omits many of the scropted songs...
Verhoeven could have made a straightforward documentary on the subject; in fact he did, as a companion piece to The Nasty Girl. But in this movie he dresses fact up as fable. Passau becomes Pfilzing, and Anja Rosmus is now Sonja Rosenberger, a precocious sprite full of life and full of herself. The movie takes its spirit from Sonja; it is bold, nettlesome and great...