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...jump so softly. That same sure strength allows her to perform skating's more difficult maneuvers gracefully. Like Mikhail Baryshnikov, the ballet dancer whom she idolizes, Dorothy never shows preparation for a leap. She seems to hang nonchalantly in flight. Her most beautiful move is a delayed Axel in which she hangs suspended before completing 1½ revolutions in the air. Skating fanciers also admire Dorothy's spins: high-speed yet delicate rotations within rotation. They seem effortless...
Recovered, Wilson set about "accomplishing work which I had begun to feel was long overdue." The best early result was the superb study of the exquisite Symbolist movement that was to become his first major book, Axel's Castle. ("Living? We'll leave that to the servants," said decadent Count Axel.) This departure exacted its melancholy price. As the decade ended, Wilson was falling away from old companions, from the "outlaw" life of the Village, from youth. The mood was summed up by his favorite cousin Sandy Kimball, a schizophrenic whom Wilson visited in an institution: "Life...
McKellen, who has performed in two of the four previous "Evening With Champions" shows, made history last spring at the World Championships when he became the first person ever to attempt a triple axel jump in international competition...
This way, of course, lie only madness and despair, but that is all right with Axel, since he has had all the boring advantages-a well-to-do family, a proper education. Indeed, when he has a few minutes to spare from the morning line he teaches literature in a New York City college. He knows-oh God, does he know-what he is doing. He is nearly consumed with self-awareness...
Somehow it is all too neat, this balancing of the moral books, just as Axel's character is too contrived for the movie to be emotionally gripping. We are too aware of Writer Toback's undigested intellectual debts as well as his rather adolescent romanticizing of his subject. Nor has London-based Director Reisz (Morgan, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) fully absorbed any of the milieus through which The Gambler moves. Most of the time he seems to be taking snapshots for an album to be called something like "Colorful Habits of the Natives...