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...apple-pie kind of ballet. If it misses the intensity of some of Feld's longer works, it also lacks their some times disturbing undertones. A circus of bravura set pieces, it may well join Le Corsaire, Don Quixote and similar pas de deux as staples of gala pro grams. Variations is bound to tempt other virtuoso pairs. There are two reasons, however, why it may not look quite the same: Christine Sarry and Mikhail Baryshnikov...
...FILM opens in 1936 in the dust-bowl town of Pampa, Texas, where Woody is earning just enough money as a sign painter and square dance fiddler to keep his family from starving to death. Pampa is an oilboom town gone bust, a grim, Depressionera morning-after the gala twenties, when the oilmen and farmers came in droves. Now the money and water are gone, the land parched and worthless. All that's left is the dust--huge, billowing black clouds of destruction and death rumbling across the prairie. Production designer Michael Haller's re-creation of a Pampa dust...
...gala night. (And, as Groucho Marx used to say, a gala night's enough for any man.) Great spots cross the sky and anxious kiddie producers in tuxedos pace back and forth and bark orders at underlings who run concentric. The audience, mostly in black ties, looks swell--the oldest-looking bunch of kids in captivity. The tickets have gone for plenty and bottles of Dom Perignon are firing corks here and there around the old molded theater. The orchestra strikes up the overture. A member of the audience shoots up out of his chair, raining champagne from his glass...
...quite Clark Kent turning into Superman, but one evening early this week mild-mannered Cyrus Vance suddenly changes from a charming, relaxed dinner partner to a tough diplomat on the run. The new Secretary of State excuses himself from a White House gala honoring Mexican President José López Portillo, dashes into a waiting Ford sedan, strips off his black bow tie and-in the pre-midnight dark -speeds south to Andrews Air Force Base. Within minutes, he is airborne in a specially outfitted Boeing...
...Universal. He had filled in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show; more such appearances were in the works. And at the age of 22, he attained one of the highest status roles in show business when he performed for the incoming President at last month's Inaugural gala in Washington...