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...film consists of segments from four of the Royal Ballet's repertoire, each a pas de deux featuring Nureyev and ballerina. La Sylphide, with Carla Fracci and The Sleeping Beauty, with Lynn Seymour, are both classical works. Field Figures, with Deanne Bergsma, choreographed by Glen Tetley, is a modern ballet. And Marguerite and Armand, with Dame Margot Fonteyn, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton especially for the pair, is based on Dumas's story of Mme. Recamier, the courtesan immortalized by Garbo in Camille. Ashton calls his ballet an "evocation poetique," but it is more like sentimental prose. The other pieces...
...artificial art here are people, wearing tights and tu-tus, dancing the story of something like a princess in an enchanted forest), and it needs the artificial atmosphere and remove of the proscenium stage for the audience to be able to suspend its disbelief. In this film, the ballet segments have been made in a studio eliminating the authentic sense of baliet as it is performed in front of a live audience), and the camera is placed so close to the dancers that any illusion of reality is lost. As a result, in La Sylphide about a Scottish lord...
...bourgeois concerns with upper-middle-class love affairs, he divorced his wife and left France torn by the political riots of May 1968. Financed by the British Broadcasting Corporation and given a free reign by the Indian government to film whatever he wanted, he made Phantom India, a seven-segment television documentary. As the filming progressed he felt his own perspective becoming more and more insignificant when confronted with the vast panorama of life and death, food and hunger of the India countryside...
...this very reason, though, the neglect of the college press as an important substratum of the national media is unfortunate: Overall, it is probably the most tightly-controlled segment of expressed opinion in the United States today...
While the city's black community is represented by Owens and Graham on the Council and Charles Pierce on the School Committee, the more populous Portuguese segment, largely located in East Cambridge, has no effective voice in either body. Whether it will make a dent in a political system still largely shared by old-line Irish and Italian pols and CCA liberals remains a question mark. Since many Cambridge Portuguese are not U.S. citizens and voter registration is low among those who are, the poor showing of previous Portuguese candidates will likely repeat in November...