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...beams will link other monuments. That same day George Bush and his family will be wel comed by Texas Governor Wil liam Clements at a "black-tie and boots" reception. On Sun day, there will be two candle light dinners and four concerts at the Kennedy Center, featuring Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich leading the National Symphony Orchestra. Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush will toast a "distinguished ladies" reception for 7,000 on Monday...
...Mikhail Baryshnikov the American Ballet Theater seemed "a beautiful Tiffany lamp with some parts missing" when he was named its artistic director in June 1979. Last week Misha allowed two of the more glittering panes to fall from the A.B.T. lamp. Celebrated Ballerina Gelsey Kirkland, 27, and fast-rising Principal Dancer Patrick Bissell, 23, were dismissed from the company, one day before the season's opener at Washington's Kennedy Center. The official reason: "gross breach of contract." The two had failed to appear for a dress rehearsal, explained Executive Director Herman Krawitz, and had been "chronically late...
...Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland of the American Ballet Theater, soprano Anna Moffo, television personality Dick Cavett, singer Aretha Franklin and the Boston Ballet will star in the theater's opening on December...
...plans call for a U.S. tour in the spring and a possible European junket after that. Makarova wanted to be artistic director of the American Ballet Theater, her main performing base since she defected from the Soviet Union ten years ago, but lost that post to fellow Emigré Mikhail Baryshnikov. Her new venture not only gives her control over a company but allows her to choose roles that she might otherwise not get. She also wants to pass on the training she received at Leningrad's fabled Kirov school to American dancers. The inexperience of her corps...
...logical source. Warsaw accordingly dispatched a delegation to Moscow to seek assistance and explain the strike agreements. Headed by First Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, the man who negotiated the Gdansk accord, the Polish envoys met first with Soviet trade officials. Jagielski then held a private meeting with Mikhail Suslov, the Soviet Politburo's hard-lining ideologist; diplomats in Moscow had no doubt that Suslov expressed strong disapproval of the independent trade union concept. The question undoubtedly came up as well during Jagielski's meeting with Brezhnev the following day. Whatever political advice the Soviet leader gave, TASS announced...