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...story by Colette, L'Enfant is as much an operetta as a ballet. It requires a chorus, a quintet of singing narrators and a boy soprano. He plays a naughty child who escapes from his studies into a fantasy world of cavorting armchairs, dancing teapots, and a veritable zoo of cats, bats, frogs, squirrels and dragonflies...
...look demure. The only multidimensional character is Ivan, a role danced at the premiere by Yuri Vladimirov. An extraordinarily lithe actor with a frazzled mane and long simian arms, Vladimirov in his mad scenes looked oddly like a bemused orangutan who had suddenly been set loose from a zoo. That effect was heightened in the ballet's unintentionally ludicrous climax, when the paranoid Czar, hopelessly entangled among bell ropes, dangles above a crowd of foot-stomping peasants...
...desert and engage them in a favorite Bedouin contest, camel-milk drinking; he won more often than not. He used to hunt big game in Africa and India, and decorated the walls of his palace in Riyadh with elephant tusks and tiger heads; he also founded a local zoo. But he curtailed many of his activities after undergoing open-heart surgery in Cleveland three years ago. In his unassuming way, Khalid, the father of seven daughters and five sons, is a widely popular man, well known for helping people who are ill or in trouble. Both his temperament...
...ller's inflatable also is his workshop, where he is finishing plans for a bubble aviary for a zoo, a bubble house for a neighbor (cost: about $6,000), and was working on a bubble to fit over the helicopter on the deck of the late Aristotle Onassis' yacht. He is also negotiating with Algeria about building an entire inflatable resort town. In fact, there is nothing that Müller would not consider enclosing in a bubble to improve the human condition. "Inflatables give you a sense of self-reliance," he says. "There are no walls...
...LOUIS--Harvard's varsity skaters quietly began niecing together their thoughts on Thursday's 6-4 loss to Minnesota and on the entire 1974-75 season, now virtually over, as they relaxed yesterday by visiting such famed St. Louis sites as the Anheuser-Busch brewery and the St. Louis Zoo...