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...charge into the water. In fact, don't do anything." Anything, that is, except dance. Prince Rainier and Princess Grace had invited Balanchine's New York City Ballet to Monaco for a week-long festival commemorating the 40th anniversary of the death of Sergei Diaghilev, whose famed Ballets Russes Balanchine choreographed in the 1920s. And for "Mr. B.," whose embroidered cowboy shirts were as outstanding as his interpretations of Stravinsky, returning to Monte Carlo's wildly baroque, red and gold opera theater was a special pleasure. "My whole life was there," he said...
Impaired Skill. During a recent seminar in Manhattan on traffic and accident medicine, Borkenstein listed seven specific types: 1) the drinking driver to whom neither drinking nor driving is a problem and whose blood alcohol concentration never goes over the .10% or .15% threshold accepted by most states; 2) the skillful driver who usually imbibes moderately, but on occasion overindulges to the point where his skill is impaired; 3) the man whose skill behind the wheel has deteriorated because of age or illness and who may consequently feel the effects of alcohol more acutely; 4) the inexperienced driver, whose lack...
...most dangerous of all. The threat of punishment is usually effective with social drinkers, Borkenstein notes, and those who are unusually sensitive to alcohol can learn to allow for it. But psychotherapy-as well as strict enforcement by the highway patrol-may be the answer for the sociopathic driver, whose chief problem is immoderate behavior behind the wheel rather than at the bar. For alcoholics, Borkenstein cautiously proposes suspending their driving privileges until, through medical and psychiatric help, they have their problem under control. Alcoholism is hard to define and detect, and to penalize a man for such a vaguely...
...American directors have often been mere foremen, called in for the job after the laborers -including the actors-were hired by the studio. Some, like John Huston, are capable of severe impressive films (The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of Sierra Madre). Others are erratic job-by-job film makers whose unifying philosophy seems to be a healthy respect for the box-office receipts...
...medium-is the suffix "esque" at the end of his name. To say a film is "Felliniesque," for example, is to suggest operatic and surrealistic fantasies, or the mixture of brio and disgust with which Fellini views society. "Godardesque" implies the nervous tics and mannerisms of an artist whose creative palsy can produce intriguing collages but never a totally complete vision. "Antonioniesque" suggests the world as a chessboard, full of malignant surfaces and doomed figures. "Pennesque," "Nicholsesque," "Kubrick-esque"-the labels refuse to stick. Yet the time may not be far off when they will...