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...1970s, Western dance began to catch up. Rising companies like the American Ballet Theater, the San Francisco Ballet and the Royal Ballet of Winnipeg began producing challenging new works. The Bolshoi, meanwhile, under the longtime leadership of artistic director Yuri Grigorovich and ideologically locked behind the Iron Curtain, simply stopped updating its repertoire. By the time the cold war's walls started to fall...
WILLIAM A. RING San Diego...
...After giving up the baby for adoption and getting a quickie marriage to get herself out of New York, Kominsky Crumb winds up in San Francisco where she discovers the circle of early women comix artists who would establish "Wimmin's Comix," the pioneering feminist underground comic book. While acknowledging the importance of her meeting this group, her characterization of the core contributors ("a backbiting, nasty group of women") typifies the author's blunt and often surprising revelations in this book...
...Hyde Park Hostel. Or, fly into London and out of Paris. For $424, you’ll get roundtrip airfare from Boston, accommodation for 6 nights and a one-way intercity ticket on the Eurostar. www.statravel.com For the Adventurer... Explore Costa Rica: $382 gets you airfare from Boston to San Jose, six days’ accomodation, and your own personal tour guide. Spend three days in the rainforest and climbing the Arenal volcano, and three days sleeping it off on the beach at Manuel Antonio. Return with a tan your friends will hate you for, along with unidenitfiable insect bites...
...kept an eye out for the drunken salarymen who, buzzed from a night of office imbibing, threatened to take headers off the platform. "He held the safety of the people in this community as his top priority," says Hiroshi Kawano, a local grocer. Miyamoto was an ordinary omawari-san - Mr. Patrolman - one of thousands of cops who man the kobans, the police booths, found in even the smallest Tokyo neighborhoods and many of which the city, in a cost-cutting measure, may soon shut down...