Word: tour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smith was in control throughout the tour, permitted his guest from London only a fleeting glimpse of black nationalist spokesmen who oppose white rule. He was allowed three hours with restricted Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo in eastern Rhodesia's steaming Hippo Valley, two hours with another delegation in the seclusion of the ladies' powder room at a Rhodesian airbase. Scarcely had Bottomley landed in Salisbury than he was whisked off to nearby Domboshawa for an indaba (powwow) with 600 government-paid chiefs and headmen. One after another, the chiefs, who are the leaders of rural tribes but have...
Graceful Combat. Though he acknowledges his allegiance to Balanchine, Christensen's distinctive trait as a choreographer is that he has no readily identifiable style, prefers to let the subject define the method. Last week the San Francisco Ballet shoved off on a two-month cross-country tour with two new Christensen ballets-Lucifer and Life: A Do-It-Yourself Disaster-prime examples of the diversity that has become the company's trademark...
Brother Act. Christensen, 55, studied "fancy dancing and social deportment" as a child in Brigham, Utah. At the urging of a balletomane uncle, he and his two elder brothers, William and Harold, formed a dance team and toured the vaudeville circuit as "the Christensen Brothers." Then came a four-year tour of duty as an infantryman in World War II, and Lew returned to find himself too stiff-muscled to dance. He turned to choreography and in 1948 took over the reins of the San Francisco Ballet from his eldest brother William, who had headed the company for a decade...
...Jeanne learned the new part overnight, and the next evening, since the two characters were never onstage at the same moment, she appeared in both roles, alternating between "an honest woman who feels like a street walker and a streetwalker who feels like an honest woman." It was a tour de force, and Paris discovered...
...also played first base well enough to be approached by minor-league baseball teams. At 18, he opted instead to tour the vaudeville circuit, played jazz piano in small West Coast barrooms for $5 a night, later added a bassist and guitarist to form his own trio...