Word: swanning
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...Women's Wear Baily was barred from the reception merely for revealing the wedding-dress design, TIME'S people must have been maxima non grata after printing that 1956 snapshot. Even we Lyndonphobes thought it ungentlemanly to remind the swan there was a duckling...
Friday night offered a "Battle of Music" featuring a fiddle contest, blues cutting, ballad topping, and gospel battle. This gimmick consumed a great deal of musical time and allowed Dorothy Love and the Gospel Harmonettes and the Swan Silvertones, led by Claude Jetter's beautifully controlled falsetto, only two songs apiece. The Gospel Harmonettes sang again Sunday morning but the Swan Silvertones left immediately for a revival in Belglade, Florida...
...lasts that long. Last week the visiting Bolshoi Ballet practically tore down the house all by itself. Most of the acclaim was lavished on the Bolshoi's wing-footed Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. On opening night she danced the dual role of Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, and on the next night performed in the U.S. première of Petipa's Don Quixote-altogether a feat that is roughly comparable to Sandy Koufax pitching both ends of a doubleheader...
CACTUS FLOWER. Sex farces are to the French what fairy tales are to children. In this version, the dour duckling (Lauren Bacall) becomes a swan just in time to tame a big bad wolf (Barry Nelson). With all the laughs, no one seems to care whether or not they live happily ever after...
Three other skilled poets, Mary Ann Radner, David Chesire, and Tom Kirby-Smith, have made competent but uninspiring contributions. Kirby-Smith close translation of Bauderlaire's "Swan" is especially solid, but it remains foreign-sounding and a little stodgy when compared to Robert Lowell's "imitation" of the poem...