Word: swanning
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Though the intent is to convey an air of casual spontaneity, a crooner's performance is as painstakingly choreographed, mood-lighted and rehearsed as a full-length production of Swan Lake. Crooners pay up to $10,000 to have an "act" written and directed for them, spend months perfecting their arrangements and delivery. Most conspicuous of the new crop...
...something to do with the way swan's-down-clad Edie did a takeoff on Zsa Zsa Gabor narcissistically bussing her own shoulder. Now Edie, who es tablished herself with a Marilyn Mon roe impersonation, has taken on noth ing less than bugging the White House...
Nureyev will be afforded better opportunities to display his virtuosity in La Bayadere and Swan Lake, though to bolster box-office sales the Royal Ballet refuses to announce which nights he will perform. The crush for tickets has been so great that every performance was virtually sold out before the company arrived. Scalpers are having a field day, and box-office lines along the tour route stretch from Baltimore to Seattle...
Died. Nathalie Henderson Swan, 83, a lifelong humanitarian who as a debutante decided in 1901 "that privilege carried with it a responsibility to the community," together with Friend Mary Harriman (Averell's sister) founded New York's Junior League, nucleus of the highly social volunteer women's service organization that now boasts 89,700 members in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; of a heart ailment; in Boca Grande...
...wobbly ways offstage, when it comes to his dancing, he is a man of steely dedication. He is a perfectionist, and has the arrogance of a perfectionist. Once, at a Kirov performance in France of Swan Lake, he slipped and fell in his first variation as the prince. Most dancers would have sheepishly carried on. Not Rudi. He stopped the orchestra, stalked offstage, rubbed rosin on his shoes and started all over again. He attends class every day without fail, will spend hours working on a step that is merely a preparation. Unlike some male virtuosos, who are notoriously...