Word: helpmann
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Once they got their knickers off, I said 'Fine, now do something clever.' But they didn't." That was Sir Robert Helpmann's critique of Oh! Calcutta! Arriving for an engagement in his native Australia, the dancing knight of London's Royal Ballet was eager to treat a group of Down Under newsmen to his impressions of New York's latest word in nude theater. "Dirty, smutty and boring," judged Helpmann, 60. Did he think the nude mood could ever spread to ballet? "Oh, no, no, no!" he protested, recoiling in mock horror...