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...openers, the company staged its pièce de résistance, a robust rendering of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, followed by a lavish, streamlined Swan Lake featuring nothing less than the reigning tandem of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, who had volunteered their services and spent one week of intensive rehearsals mastering the myriad refinements of Cranko's interpretation. But the creation that stirred the most frenetic response from the crowd was the première of a handsomely preened and plumed production of Stravinsky's Fire Bird, grounded in the Fokine tradition but soaring...
Since Noverre. The fruits of his Stuttgart efforts first appeared on the international scene at last year's Edinburgh Festival, where his achievement was hailed as "staggering" and "beyond praise." Yet for all the lavish encomiums, Cranko is the first to admit that he and his relatively small company still need five or more years of maturing before they are ready to lay claim to the authentic "Stuttgart style" label some critics have already begun to discuss in glowing, enthusiastic terms. But one thing is already certain: not since the city's celebrated Ballet Reformer Jean-Georges Noverre...
...Panofsky, who learned to deal in large figures as head of Stanford's $100 million linear accelerator, believes that lavish funds expended on high-energy physics, which pries into the inner nature of matter, and on cosmology, which tries to understand the universe, will pay higher eventual returns than any applied research. "We cannot afford to be ignorant," he says, "of the most fundamental type of structure on which everything else depends...
Seltzer, in choosing to be as realistic as possible with an opulent production, has risked much. Sometimes the lavish effects work. Jon Warburg's lighting, especially in the storm scene and in the gloom of Brutus's tent on his last night, is imaginative and excellent. But the sound effects are artificial and distracting, the costumes cumbersome and noisy, and the battles athletic but hardly dramatic...
Spreading Net. Until lately lures have been directed at near neighbors and Americans, whose spending is so lavish that foreign resort owners eagerly followed the progress of the U.S. tax-cut bill. But jet planes, higher incomes and the loosening of foreign-exchange restrictions have spread the net. Switzerland may soon begin tourist campaigns in Australia, Japan and Latin America. Spain, whose tourist income has risen 500% in five years to $900 million, has started an ethnic enticement toward Latin America. East Africa's safari promotions have drawn inquiries from Russia...