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...comedy. In Frederick Ashton's Les Patineurs, the dancers appear to be on ice skates. Misha seems about to fall over backward at times-a mime performance that Marcel Marceau might envy. Perhaps his greatest tour de force so far is Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mart. The ballet is a cartoon of existential angst, but, leaping over bed, chair and table, Baryshnikov turns it into a young man's rage at mortality...
This clout helps Baryshnikov realize his other thwarted aim from Kirov days-to dance roles drawn from outside the classical repertory. Les Patineurs is one of these, as is Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, which he flew to Paris to learn from Choreographer Petit. In the summer he will add Shadowplay, which Antony Tudor is reworking especially for him. Such innovators as Twyla Tharp and Alvin Ailey are also working on new ballets for him. John Neumeier, director of the Hamburg Opera Ballet, will stage Hamlet for him-probably next winter...
...arrival with: two heads Bibb lettuce. Nice, fresh. One dozen brown eggs. Under no circumstances white eggs ... Mr. Brynner brings with him special Canadian bacon. Make sure he can put some of it in the hotel's freezer and the balance will go in his own kitchen." Et cetera, et cetera...
Hugh Sidey's comments concerning the week's activities at the White House [March 3] sickened me. Does Mr. Sidey suggest that the President, Senators, Congressmen, economists, et al., subsist on tuna casserole until solutions to the nation's economic ills are found...
...Great Liberal" and "the Great Dissenter," but, says Chadbourn. "He wasn't that liberal and he didn't dissent all that much." In a series of sedition cases after World War I, Holmes authored the majority opinion which found Americans guilty of collaboration with the enemy. In Abrams et al vs. the United States, however, he relented with a dissenting opinion on the same issue...