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...says the present version "is the most important thing I have ever done." Director Meyer calls the movie "the most valuable thing I've ever done with my life." Mayor David Longhurst has invited Ronald Reagan and Yuri Andropov to Lawrence for a summit. Another Lawrence citizen, Bob Swan, member of the antinuke Let Lawrence Live organization, says he is trying to link up his home town by television or telephone to Leningrad, so that Soviets and Americans can hash things out person to person. After the broadcast, ABC will put on a special 45-min. edition of Viewpoint...
...element in Unglueckliche Liebe (Unhappy Love), 1974, is a fragment of sheet music whose words apostrophize the miseries of passion: "Begone, begone, ye children of Melancholy!" But set on its dark ground, with a rectangle of slaty blue and a marvelous, soaring shape of white paper-Mallarme's swan, making a personal appearance-its stilted sentiment turns into a concise image of sorrow and relief...
...creative chicanery all summer. Swathed in blue-green skirts whenever Australia II is out of the water, the supersecret keel has been the target of camera-wielding scuba divers from rival camps. One local cartoon lampooned the mysterious keel by depicting it in the shape of a bottle of Swan Lager, a major corporate backer of the Australia II effort...
...such revolutionary works as Concerto Barocco (1941) and The Four Temperaments (1946), Balanchine reveled in the joy of pure movement, unencumbered by sets, costumes or plot. "Swan Lake is a bore," he declared. For Balanchine, dance was really about motion, not the Wilis; the choreographer's intent, he felt, should be made explicit without panoply or program notes. "The curtain should just go up," he said, "and if the spectators understand what's going on, it's good...
Throughout the dance six male clowns, dressed in white tutus, imitate a corps de ballet of Swan Lake and inelegantly entertain and interrupt Fontessa. Ragtime and The Man with amusing burlesques. The piece's success rides more on its dramatic and humorous aspects than inherent strengths in the dance. Towards the end Fontessa enters the stage in a sequined silver bikint to the song "If my friends could see me now." At one point one almost expects Ragtime to open his mouth and begin talking--certainly a radical departure from any traditional dance form...