Word: fonteyne
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...country's national university and controlled its press; of a heart attack; aboard a plane bound from Boston to Miami. One somewhat less successful family exploit: an abortive 1959 revolt against the Panamanian government led by Arias' son Roberto, and assisted by his wife, Dame Margot Fonteyn, who was nabbed for arms-smuggling, spent a night in the poky...
During her week, Jackie Kennedy, who likes and enjoys the Christmas festivities, went backstage at a performance given by-Washington's newly acquired American Ballet Theater, thanked Dame Margot Fonteyn for flying in from London to take the place of ailing Ballerina Maria Tallchief, posed with the cast in some pictures that looked like spun-sugar decorations on a holiday cake. She dropped by the D.C. Village infirmary for old folks, stopped by each wheelchair, saying: "Nice to see you. Merry Christmas...
...Margot Fonteyn, a little past her great ballerina days at 43, has found in Russian Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, 24, one of the most satisfactory partners of her career. They make quite a pair. Seventeen months have now passed since he defected in Paris from the Kirov Ballet company of Leningrad (TIME, June 23, 1961). Dancing with Fonteyn, Nureyev has gained in control and assurance without losing any of the instinctive stage sense that made him an immediate hit. Audiences seem absorbed with every movement of his small, compact body, every expression of his high-cheekboned face. When he has completed...
...prompted comparisons with Nijinsky and even with the late actor James Dean, hero of the beatniks. Unfortunately for the Royal Ballet, Nureyev is like Dean in another respect: he is as complex and difficult an animal offstage as he is on. After giving a superb performance opposite Fonteyn in an electrifying pas de deux from Le Corsaire, Nureyev withdrew from all his scheduled performances...
...American Ballet Theatre in Chicago during the Christmas season, and would rest up until then. He will not reappear at Covent Garden until mid-January, an absence that has forced postponement of Frederick Ashton's long-awaited new ballet, Marguerite and Armand, written specially for Nureyev and Fonteyn. Said one riled and exasperated Covent Garden official: "I'd rather deal with ten Callases than one Nureyev...