Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scattered about the living room are effects that mark the mystery of the man -gilt-bound tomes of Balzac and Schiller next to a pile of toys that he amuses himself with: a soccer game, a Yo-Yo, a gun that shoots pingpong balls. And everywhere there are model train locomotives, which he collects in honor of his origin. He used his earnings of about $2,800 per performance to buy an $80,000 walled-in villa tucked away in the mountains above Monte Carlo, where he spends two or three months out of the year...
...Tartar. Nureyev was in fact born in motion-on a train rattling across the icy stretches of Siberia. It was 1938, and his peasant mother was en route to visit his father, a soldier assigned to teach Communist doctrine to a Russian artillery unit stationed just then in Vladivostok. But Nureyev does not feel Russian. Both his parents, he proudly points out, are descendants of the "magnificent race of Bashkir warriors," and therefore "I am Tartar, not Russian." The Tartar temperament, he explains, is a "curious mixture of tenderness and brutality...
...TRAIN. Boxcars full of French art are the rolling stock of Director John Frankenheimer's muscular World War II drama about a Nazi colonel (Paul Scofield) and a Resistance leader (Burt Lancaster) playing tug-of-war with trains...
...Pyrenees above San Sebastian. From there, it is a four-night trek down the Pyrenees into the flatlands of southern France, where they are packed into the false-bottomed trucks. Once out of range of French border police, the escapees are sent to Paris or Lyon by train...
Huguette Munck was one of many female passengers on the St.-Gervais express to whom Huu was similarly attentive. For a year Huu was a regular weekend commuter on the train. Half a dozen women lodged complaints at various French police stations, but the police did not take them seriously, and Huu remained toe-loose and fancy-free. The end came with a statuesque 23-year-old divorcee named Simone Boullin. Chocolates, toes, seduction-and poor Simone had ridden past her stop. Instead of disappearing, as was his practice, Huu gallantly accompanied her to a hotel room in Le Fayet...