Word: spritely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...access of idiosyncratic inspiration, Director Lee Breuer provides the play not with one Ariel but eleven, ranging in age and sex from adults to tiny tots barely out of diapers. It is eerily disconcerting that the chief aery sprite (Iwatora) is garbed as a sumo wrestler with matching gestures and grunts. The enamored young couple, Ferdinand (David Marshall Grant) and Miranda (Jessica Nelson), who should breathe the spirit of nascent romance into the play, are equally dismaying. He seems like a rough and randy high school jock and she like a simp of a gum-chewing prom queen...
...dancer and an exotic, sexy quality. She was hailed as a Cinderella, but if that is so, then A.B.T.'s lineup is full of them. In the next weeks, Cheryl Yeager, 23, took on several lead roles. Small, with a light, high jump, she is a sprite to Jaffe's vamp. Among the male dancers, Peter Fonseca, 23, shows a bounding attack as the Boy in Green in Les Patineurs. Perhaps Baryshnikov's most daring casting is the choice of La Fosse, 21, in Prodigal Son, a role closely associated with Edward Villella and later Baryshnikov. Both...
...picked up the jargon: "Endgap" is the shelf at the end of an aisle: a "cutter" is a razor blade with a sheath: "fills" are sets of chores involving filling endcaps by opening cartons with cutters. A "carryout" means helping a perfectly healthy old lady carry six bottles of Sprite and getting stiffed...
...heyday the Barbizon was both legend and landmark. Innumerable were the tales of ardent swains who essayed in vain to penetrate the upper floors disguised as doctors or dads. Mae Sibley, a bright-eyed sprite who was the hotel's assistant manager and housemother to the girls, kept close tabs on their comings and goings. A girl needed three good references to be considered for admission, and then was graded by such criteria as family, looks, dress and demeanor...
Maxi Gnauck, 15, an East German sprite with closely cropped hair and a tiny chassis (4 ft. 10 in., 71 lbs.), went first on the vault. Her robot-like consistency cracked under the pressure, and she had to settle for a 9.75. Next up was Yelena Davidova, 18, an elfin Soviet with a Dorothy Hamill haircut, on the parallel bars. Only 4 ft. 8 in., 75 lbs., she had scored a stunning 10 in the floor exercises the night before, mixing rubber-body tumbling and kiddie-porn dance routines (hip grinding to a snake charmer's song...