Word: sugarplum
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Holiday on Ice (Dec. 22, 9 p.m., NBC) will glisten for 90 minutes, featuring 44-year-old Sonja Henie as the Sugarplum Fairy in the Nutcracker Suite, and Olympic Figure-Skating Champion Hayes Alan Jenkins...
...other new work is a loving exercise in Russian nostalgia: a Balanchine version of the old story-telling Nutcracker, with music by Tchaikovsky, sugarplum fairies, and a Christmas tree as big as Balanchine can fit on to the stage. The Nutcracker will take a full evening, and provide 35 children's roles for youngsters of Balanchine's ballet school. Central theme of Nutcracker: food...
...Wrote Steinbeck: "When my grandchildren speak of their sugarplum eroticisms I can say, 'You see? This is how it was in my day. This Dragon Lady, with the figure of a debutante (if debutantes have figures) was one of your old man's girl friends...
About Fantasia: Probably no single occasion has demonstrated more compellingly the visual possibilities in great music. When you or I listen to the Nutcracker Suite, we have a vague picture of toy flutes, Chinamen, Arabians, sugarplum fairies--anything the program tells us to hear. When Walt Disney hears it, there are created whole new imaginative worlds of dewdrops, mushrooms, tadpoles, thistles, and autumn leaves. The more visual-minded you are, probably the more you will enjoy Fantasia; plenty of people on the other hand are going to find the patterns on the screen nothing but a distraction. Particularly...
...that when he finally falls in love, it is with a girl who might be his daughter; he delays proposing to her so long that she is wooed and married by his nephew before he has even heaved a deep sigh. But the minute Mr. Wheaton's poisoned sugarplum comes along, Uncle Tim gets his back up. He succeeds in keeping it away from the hungry village, and if he isn't happy in the end-well, a slowpoke can't have everything...