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...Crimson, though taking fourth (5:58.7), did manage to eke out at least some satisfaction, beating Yale (5:59.3). The winner, of course, was Washington (5:49.5) with Orange Coast (5:57.8) and California (5:52.1) strung out behind...
...wife to separation and divorce. Feeling depressed and guilty, Garcia turned to drugs. He checked into a psychiatric hospital in Arizona but stayed only six weeks before returning to California-and to drugs. Although he managed to keep practicing medicine, his professional reputation suffered. At 42, totally strung out on narcotics and with his career in ruins, Garcia checked into a motel and deliberately overdosed on heroin...
...easy to see Balanchine's influence on Martins' choreography. Mr. B. takes his cue from the music, not stories, and so does Martins. The Russian folk tale that Stravinsky strung his music around has all but vanished in this production. Those who want to can find hints of a soldier and the devil playing tricks on each other, but Martins' eye is squarely on dance as Balanchine sees it: speed, color, pattern, technical brilliance. The 22 dancers who appear in L'Histoire are costumed as visual metaphors of sound, not as characters in a script...
...themes of Steely Dan songs remain unclear. "Babylon Sisters" opens the album, a psalm to menages a trois. But not to worry, the Dan says, "The kid will live and learn, as he watches his bridges burn from the point of no return." Wow--three cliches strung together in an entirely new fashion! Music has never been so coolly banal...
...were in New York City, thus laying the foundation of her daughter's passion for maquillage as armor and costume as spectacle. Her father's ventures prospered, and within the inward-turned circle of her family young Louise was completely indulged, the focus of two high-strung parents who, not always getting on with each other, loaded her with approval. "Being a female was never a handicap for me," she says. "I felt-I knew-that I could do anything I wanted...