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...first is used (and abused) by everyone. The last has become the property of infants, absurdists and politicians. And the one in the middle? Strung between the poles of the superrational and the occult, it suffers from disuse and neglect. The nation suffers along with...
...work around the stables is concentrated in a single four-hour period, and from 6 to 10 a.m. the area sees a constant flow of activity-but activity that is controlled and subdued, conducted quietly, almost noiselessly, lest the high-priced and high-strung animals that are the center of all the attention become frightened...
...public nor private... a nether world of fear and crime." His alternative ("defensible space") returns autonomy to the tenant by making intruders conspicuously out of place. For example, he argues that families sharing a single entry in a low-rise building can control intruders more successfully than many families strung along a corridor on the tenth floor of a superblock...
...pieces of formal works are strung together by clips of Nureyev rehearsing, Nureyev exercising, Nureyev resting, Nureyev breathing. And the entire movie is narrated with Nureyev and Fonteyn's words interspliced) by Briton Bryan Forbes, intoning as though he were touring Stonehenge, from a script with such penetrating insights as, "dancing is very difficult, you know", or "this is a dancer's dressing room; no frills, just four bare walls...
...their notes and observations. They kept diaries and wrote letters home-chaste and respectful ones to Mme. Flaubert, wildly lubricious ones to a poor sex-starved friend named Bouilhet-and later Du Camp wrote a book about their travels. Out of these materials Francis Steegmuller has translated excerpts and strung them together with brief comments of his own to make a lively and intermittently hilarious narrative of a gawky young genius stumbling through the land of his dreams...