Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from 275 Ibs. to 235 Ibs. and registered for an all-women's course in modern dance. He was accepted, and by mid-semester was elected to Orchesis, the honorary dancing society. Leeper did his own choreography for the Orchesis show, in which he will wear a fluffy tutu (ballet costume) neatly ornamented by a tattooed Marine motto, Semper Fidelis, on his ham-sized left arm. So far, Leeper has managed to keep his head. Says he: "I'd still rather throw a block in football than throw one of the girls in the dance...
...friend at the time: "I never seem to achieve anything with my blasted sculpture." He often journeyed to the Hébrard Foundry on the outskirts of Paris to pick up pointers. In his lifetime, he exhibited only one statue, an awkward ballet rat dressed in a real gauze tutu and hair ribbon. But even this and a few other waxworks caused his friend Renoir to exclaim: "Why, Degas is the greatest living sculptor." Degas was not so sure, once remarked: "To be survived by sculpture in bronze-what a responsibility! Bronze is so very indestructible...
...curtain rose on a blue Asiatic nightscape. A ballerina in a plumed, scarlet and gold tutu skittered gracefully across the stage. Then a hunter snared...
...admits, are the long-range goal. "Going to the retailer," he explained, "is an attempt to create a demand." All Manila buzzed this week over a ban posted in every Roman Catholic girls' school against accepting any student who studies ballet. The reason: the scanty costumes (leotard and tutu) used by ballet dancers and the "extraordinary positions," as one nun put it, assumed in mixed company...
Fred and Leslie dance pretty well separately, but when they get together the ballerina looks about as comfortable in a two-step as Fred would in a tutu. The show has its moments, though. "Am I leading?" asks a muscular young woman Fred is dancing with. "No," he replies, breathing hard. "I think it's a tie." For the art lovers, there is a scene in which the camera respectfully inspects a series of paintings, genuine originals, by Jean Baptiste Corot, Raoul Dufy, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Claudette Colbert...