Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...remembered in Washington as a modest and unassuming man with a wide range of interests (he has been both a newspaper columnist and TV talk-show host in California) and something of an irreverent raconteur. He and his wife of 38 years, Jane, enjoy theater, opera and ballet; they have a son and a daughter. After leaving the Administration in 1975, Weinberger became a vice president and director of the Bechtel Group, an international construction and engineering firm based in San Francisco...
...Mikhail Baryshnikov the American Ballet Theater seemed "a beautiful Tiffany lamp with some parts missing" when he was named its artistic director in June 1979. Last week Misha allowed two of the more glittering panes to fall from the A.B.T. lamp. Celebrated Ballerina Gelsey Kirkland, 27, and fast-rising Principal Dancer Patrick Bissell, 23, were dismissed from the company, one day before the season's opener at Washington's Kennedy Center. The official reason: "gross breach of contract." The two had failed to appear for a dress rehearsal, explained Executive Director Herman Krawitz, and had been "chronically late...
...Brien, 50: "I like her innate grand manner. I think she will grow up to be one of the wonderful, impressive ballerinas-like the great old girls, only without being bulky." David Howard, a teacher who has worked with Darci and many other top dancers, has a ballet master's unblinking eye. Says he: "She has good legs, good training and inborn strength. She is a little wide in the shoulders. She will have to learn to camouflage it and create a softer illusion." He questions whether Darci is climbing too fast: "There is not enough patience today. Many...
Within City Ballet, Darci Kistler has been watched closely since her first school workshop performance. During rehearsals for her final student appearance in Swan Lake last May, she had a hip injury, but danced "full out" the whole time. Says a friend: "She covered the pain for two hours every afternoon. It was sheer determination." Says Irina Kosmovska, who began teaching Darci in California when she was eleven: "Darci was a fountain of energy. She tried everything. She was one of my most intense students-she would commit suicide on the floor...
Darci's grit-required of dedicated ballet dancers-showed up early. Her father is a successful Riverside, Calif., doctor, her mother a former French teacher. Her four big brothers were all wrestling champions. Just to keep pace, recalls a friend, "she had to be one tough little girl." The family supported her ambitions, driving her regularly to a studio two hours away in Beverly Hills. Three years ago, about the time that the decision to go to New York had to be made, her mother took her to a high school football game and told her, "Darci...