Word: swans
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...stars -- is a supermodel's life really all that satisfying? Apparently not. NAOMI CAMPBELL seems to be searching for meaning in the form of a literary career. She took a day off from the spring shows in Paris to pitch her unfinished novel at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Titled Swan, it is being called a ''sex, shopping and supermodeling saga...
...talents were spotted early. Says Vinogradov: ''I saw she had unique possibilities. She feels the movement very profoundly, and she is very beautiful on stage.'' In the stratified Soviet system, he has brought her along relatively fast. He felt he was taking a chance when he put her in Swan Lake in Paris during the company's 1982 engagement because her portrayal was not yet ''precise.'' But the debut was a triumph. She enchanted the Western press, and word of her began to spread. On this year's tour, Asylmuratova mostly danced the role of Nikiya in the Shades sequence...
...music, I find it hard to enjoy classical music. What can I do about this? -James Jiang, Norwich, U.K.I don't think that if you listen to pop music, you can't enjoy classical. Find something very popular to listen to first--piano pieces by Chopin or something like Swan Lake--and then you can move on to Mahler or Wagner...
...Russian ballerina Irina Baronova had already won critics' hearts, thanks to famed choreographer George Balanchine. He launched the young dancer's career when he cast her in a 1931 performance of the operetta Orpheus in the Underworld. Baronova went on to perform in ballets such as Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, but she is best known for touring the world with two other young Balanchine protégés. The trio, known as the "Baby Ballerinas," was hugely popular in the 1930s. Baronova...
...deep surrendered one of its mysteries today. Ever since May 2007, when the American shipwreck salvage company Odyssey Marine gave its latest and most spectacular discovery the appropriately pirate-esque code name of "The Black Swan," controversy about the ship's true identity has spawned speculation and even litigation about who owned the lucrative shipwreck. Today, the Spanish government submitted evidence a Florida court that the ship was actually Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, a Spanish navy frigate that sank in the early 19th century. In other words, that it was theirs...