Word: dancer
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...months, How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market by Dancer Nick Darvas has been high on bestseller lists (120,000 copies sold). Last week the New York attorney general threw the book at Darvas. His story, charged the state, is "unqualifiedly false." It could find "ascertainable" profits of only $216,000. Darvas and Publisher Bernard Mazel, head of American Research Council, an investment-advisory service, were ordered to come in and prove that the dancer had indeed made a market killing. The action was the first to be taken under a broadened state law that bans fraud...
State investigators granted that they had not been able to track down all of the dancer's brokerage accounts-and he had them in Manhattan, Panama and Switzerland-so he could have made all of the money he said he did. In one account alone, he reportedly made the amount the state listed as his total "ascertainable" profit. In Paris, Darvas called the charges false, a "cynically irresponsible action, book burning by publicity." As soon as he gets a copy of the complaint, he said, he will explain...
...Degas' case, the subject was apt to be a ballet dancer; in Soyer's, it might be a young actress, a painter or a seamstress. But all his figures-whether a girl, a member of his family, or even himself-have the same bemused quality. "When people are by themselves, they begin to look like that, ' he explains. "Even in a crowd, they walk against you without seeing you,' their expression a kind of moody emptiness " Soyer's people live in a world of subdued color, curbed motion and meticulous design; yet they brim with...
...have a power firmly rooted in a kind of sophisticated innocence. Marc Chagall takes the Old Testament literally, so that his Jewish inspiration seems sometimes to have been handed over to an unreconstructed Fundamentalist for execution. These powerful drawings are sensuous (Ruth in the Fields looks like a belly dancer) and sometimes terrible (Joel Kills Sisera), but always steeped in a mythical vision that has become the signature of Chagall...
...time in the theater Camelot moved forward of its own weight, only slightly trimmed from its original 3 hr. 40 min., while the mood of the cast settled into general uncertainty. Knights were complaining that their chain mail was wearing out and tempers were wearing out too. When a dancer tripped over a piece of scenery last week, Set Designer Smith was heard to snap: "I hope you broke your leg." Novice squires were learning from cynical old-timers that this was the time to pursue chorus girls, since they were away from home, lonesome and worried. One reason spirits...