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Lightning arced hotly around the stage in the lithe body of a girl in a metallic leotard (Matt Turney), rousing loiterers into dances that were alternately elegant, calculating or frenzied. Sometimes serious, Lightning was also full of the ironic wit with which Graham occasionally likes to prick the dance world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Martha's Phantasmagoria | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

Partly because much of it moves to rhythmically gay and tinny music, La Plume has a sort of dreamlike clockwork precision, a sense of Jacques being nimble, Jacques being quick. But it is something very like charm that most enhances what is good in the show and cushions what is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

In Sweden, gymnastics is a national pastime, embraced with evangelical fervor. Last week a 13-man group of muscular missionaries from Sweden, including the nation's entire eight-man Olympic team, reached the University of Illinois in the course of a 10,000-mile tour to carry the calisthenic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Muscular Missionaries | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Swedish Coach Linden, after watching Browning, went over to Coach Pond and said: "Fabulous! I congratulate you." Then the missionaries from Sweden, who have yet to lose a meet in the U.S., packed up to carry the calisthenic word to points as far south as Florida.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Muscular Missionaries | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Right now the big problem is the availability of practice ice and the limited training time. Daily calisthenic workouts are now going on at the Blockhouse, but formal icework cannot start until Tuesday. Most of the skaters, however, are getting in semi-weekly informal practices at their own expense at...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Reserves, Speed Give Skaters Strength as Training Opens | 11/10/1948 | See Source »

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