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The dancing is spectacle enough. The three pieces, each the essence of a different style of ballet, are all choreographed with imagination and danced with most impressive technique. The second work, a series of Tchaikovsky Divertissements, though a virtuoso exercise, lacks the excitement of the other two pieces: "Songs," choreographed...
On May 1, 1945, gun butts struck the door of the apartment near Rapallo where Pound lived à trois with his wife Dorothy and his mistress of many years, a violinist named Olga Rudge. He was taken to a military stockade near Pisa and installed on death row in a...
The bourgeois couple of this film is played by Glenda Jackson and Michael Caine. Their performances are good, given the built-in limitations of the roles--this is not an actor's film. The plot is not the strongest point either: Jackson, bored with her perfect husband, adorable son, and...
And what dancing there is! Just as there is grand opera, there is also grand ballet-unfettered by logic, celebrating showmanship and dazzle for their own sake. There were a few opening-night technical mishaps, but Nureyev's Raymonda is so studded with spectacular solos, pas de deux, pas...
Spiritual Partner. Wollstonecraft's first serious love was for a gifted, flamboyant, vain and bisexual painter named Henry Fuseli. The affair was predictably exciting and predictably disastrous, a power struggle that ended in the humiliating scene: Mary begging Fuseli's wife to allow a ménage à...