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When the curtain goes up on Once Upon a Time, Twyla Tharp's new dance for American Ballet Theater, Mikhail Baryshnikov is alone onstage. He is elegantly dressed in pleated, '30s-style trousers, the kind that Cary Grant or Katharine Hepburn used to wear in the movies. This attractive, provocative first glance recalls Tharp's triumphant Push Comes to Shove (1976); that ballet began with Baryshnikov's sidling out in a vaguely Slavic tunic and a sassy bowler hat. No doubt about it, Tharp understands this Russian-American firebird better than any other choreographer. She sees...
...NATO officials. Bombers are dubbed with words beginning with B, such as Blackjack and Backfire, and fighters are labeled with an F, sometimes bizarrely, as in Foxbat and Frogfoot. The MiG and Su designations refer to two major Soviet design bureaus and honor the late Engineers Ar-tem Mikoyan, Mikhail Gurevich and Pavel Sukhoi...
Last week Andropov showed more of his housecleaning intentions by sacking Mikhail Mikhailov, 53, a deputy minister of the aviation industry, and S. Andriasov, his deputy in charge of foreign relations. Neither was accused of any crime, but one of their subordinates, Nikolai Laikov, responsible for organizing aviation exhibitions abroad, was found guilty of misappropriating the equivalent of $80,000 in foreign currency. While Laikov was sentenced to 15 years in prison and his property confiscated, his two bosses were sacrificed for neither stopping nor spotting the swindle. Their example serves as a warning that even faint contact with corruption...
...almost everyone with her smoky vulnerability. And so, with two of the most highly praised performances of the past year, she is an odds-on favorite to garner two Academy Award nominations next month, the first double designate in four decades. Back on the arm of her longtime beau Mikhail Baryshnikov, 34, Lange finds that her most challenging current role is warding off rumors that she has become a temperamental star. "I wish all the people so up in arms and offended by my behavior had met Frances," says Lange. "She tore people to pieces. I'm like...
...describe Peter Martins, 36, is as "a young god." He is blond, handsome and ruggedly virile, with the physique of a football tight end (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.). His dancing is strong and clear, the picture of disciplined power and instinctive authority. Yet unlike his great contemporaries Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev, Martins is not a magnet for the media. His impact has been almost entirely through his role as leading male dancer with the New York City Ballet, a company where the choreography rather than the performer is designed to star...