Word: swanning
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...half of the big blue gore with angelic nudes and a bird playing The Magic Flute; Chagallic vignettes of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov fill the rest of the blue space. On around the circle, clockwise, yellow-bedecked dancers pirouette to Adam's Giselle and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Ballet is further honored in the red petal, with Stravinsky's Firebird and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé depicted near, of all things, the Eiffel Tower. Next, Debussy's Pelléas and Mélisande swoon under a yellow angel...
...interim Premier supposedly was about to expire, Khanh announced his "imminent return to the army." Then he gave himself a farewell party, attended by hundreds of bureaucrats, diplomats and journalists. While mortars throbbed in the distance during a government-Viet Cong clash, the band tootled out an appropriate swan song -With a Little Bit of Luck...
...Kirov, launching a three-month tour of U.S. and Canadian cities, also offers a gay version of Cinderella, which is tricked out with international dances by the simple device of making the prince search for his ashy love all over the world. The Kirov versions of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty are impeccable, if cold. All the principal dancers are technically irreproachable. If they lack the idiosyncrasies that make great stars out of merely superb dancers, at least there is the consoling virtue that it does not matter much, except to close students of the dance, which ballerina...
...Moliere's Impromptu at Versailles, now playing at the Loeb Experimental Theater along with Chekov's Swan Song, a group of actors prepare a play for presentation before the King on very short notice. The play they are preparing is an oblique reply to a recent attack on Moliere and his comedies, aind in it a group of Moliere's enemies discuss the attack. In the process they show themselves to be just the sort of people Moliere had described in his previous plays. Periodically Moliere, who is directing the inner play, interrupts the rehearsal with instructions and the actors...
...Swan Song is a long soliloquy by an old actor, Vassily Vassilyith Svetlovidov (John Ross), punctuated occasionally by remarks from an equally ancient prompter (Peter Weil), whom Svetlovidov finds in a deserted theater. Svetlovidov is alternately pathetic and ridiculous, as he recalls his life on the stage...