Word: touring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show off his clout last year, Spence took two clients and a pair of male prostitutes on a midnight July 4 tour of the White House.That same weekend, Spence gave Secret Service agent Ronald deGueldre, who arranged the tour, his $8,000 Rolex; deGueldre gave Spence his $22 Casio -- all out of friendship, says deGueldre. The agent's house in Virginia was searched last week for pieces of Truman china, a set of presidential cuff links and a tiepin that disappeared mysteriously after the tour. Officials will not say if anything was found...
From the opening curtain on, exoticism was in the air. Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, embarking on a four-city, eight-week U.S. tour, chose to lead off its engagement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week with Le Corsaire, a full-length ballet that very few Americans have ever seen. The kind of diversion that appealed to 19th century audiences in Paris or St. Petersburg, Le Corsaire now seems a genuine novelty, and, like the Kirov itself, it signaled that something fresh and curious can still be found in the post- glasnost era of big tours and cultural exchanges...
Seen during the Canadian part of the current tour, Scotch Symphony, Balanchine's musings on La Sylphide, worked best with Yelena Pankova, 25, as the sylph. A springy dancer blessed with a high, light jump, she seemed to grasp the choreographer's oft repeated injunction: respond to the music and "don't think -- do" the steps. Senior ballerina Galina Mezentseva tried to make a romantic story out of this plotless work and as a result looked...
...Navy officer to report Souther as a spy. Souther had too much extra money, she claimed, and took Government documents home in violation of regulations. Authorities initially dismissed her accusations as an ex- wife's spite, but now suspect that Souther was recruited by the KGB during that tour in Italy. Kryuchkov refused to confirm that but said more details of Souther's career in espionage would be published. "We can be quite open about this," he said. "We have our spies, and you have yours...
...Naipaul claims he is now content to be a quiet listener. Readers looking for a verbal lynching by the leading chronicler of modern folly and delusion may have been disappointed by his recently published A Turn in the South. But what they got was far more than the standard tour of the new liberal Dixie. In texture and tone, the work is a departure for Naipaul. "I was not interested in what I thought; I was interested in what the people thought," he says. Working up to 14 hours a day, Naipaul roamed the old Confederacy talking to black intellectuals...