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...their London flat. Then the phone rang. Midway through the English National Ballet's Swan Lake, the prima ballerina was injured. Pavane and Horsman--they're married and not the star- crossed lovers they dance in Romeo and Juliet, above--were summoned. The two E.N.B. principals rushed by taxi to Royal Festival Hall as the audience waited. They leaped into Act III. ``It was,'' says Pavane, who whipped through the Black Swan's famously difficult 32 fouettes, ``our worst nightmare and a dream come true...
Bryn was a busy kid. "I was quite a little taxi for him," recalls his mother Nesta Jones. (Terfel is Bryn's middle name; another singer uses the name Bryn Jones.) What he learned at the eisteddfods was stage presence: "When I went to college I was streets ahead of others because I was used to facing the public." At London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he was awarded a scholarship. It was then, Nesta Jones says, "that we thought he had something special...
While some students said they plan to take the T or a taxi to the airport, most said will make the trip in the free shuttle sponsored by the Undergraduate Council...
Throughout China, Cuba, Russia and much of Eastern Europe, people from shopkeepers to schoolteachers stash greenbacks as a shield against hyperinflation and the sudden devaluation of their own currencies. In some cases, it is also the only way to do business. Taxi drivers in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, prefer their fares in dollars, as do some restaurants in Kiev and St. Petersburg. Says a Russian importer of IBM computers, pulling a thick wad of $50 bills from his pocket: "What do I need rubles for? I want real money...
...Paris and Milan last month. There were front-slit short skirts from Karl Lagerfeld, gold-mesh biker shorts from Gianfranco Ferre and rhinestone-studded hot pants from the team of Dolce & Gabbana, who acknowledged that their D&G line had been inspired by Jodie Foster's preteen streetwalker in Taxi Driver. Vulgarity, it seems, reigns on the runways...