Word: svengalian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bedtime Earned. Markova earns around $350 a week, wears out three pairs of ballet slippers doing it. Though a danseuse noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro. In Manhattan she arrives every morning at 10:30 at the studio of her trainer, a Svengalian Italian ballet master named Vincenzo Celli. He ruthlessly analyzes her shortcomings, puts her through an hour's workout that would wilt a professional athlete. By noon she is on the Metropolitan stage, dressed in tights and a black velvet tunic, ready for hours of rehearsal. With scarcely time...
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