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After watching Petkevich complete a routine highlighted by a flying-open axle sit spin, champion Wood said that Pelkevich is "the most dynamic skater that the U.S. has seen in a long time...
...snow. The water mill hangs stiff with icicles. The rivers wait, as if struck by some icy thought. A woman with fagots on her head hurries across a bridge (see detail, page 53). Upon the ice, the polished green crust of earth's secret blood, some skate, others spin tops, and still others play at curling, with faint cries...
Since reversal is the key to Charlie's prominence, it is only proper for him to pull the ultimate switch in films. Formerly, animated cartoon characters -such as Donald Duck or Bugs Bunny -would begin their existence in the movies, then spin off into comics. Charlie was born back in 1949 as a newspaper feature. Only now, after six TV specials and a happily long-running off-Broadway musical, has he backed into a full-length animated cartoon, A Boy Named Charlie Brown...
...been drawing standing-room-only audiences on a speaking tour of U.S. campuses. The visit coincided with the publication of the first English translation of The Book of Imaginary Beings. An alphabetically arranged, cross-cultural bestiary of both famous and faintly known monsters and apparitions, Beings is a spin-off from Borges' vast scholarship. The reader is invited to consider such symbolic creatures as the Basilisk, a remote cousin of Medusa, which kills with its stare. Closer to home is the Pennsylvania Squonk, which dissolves in its own tears when captured. There is also that symbol of incongruity...
...background to last week's celebrations was a retrospective of Coward's career that was unprecedented even for as oft-revived a writer as he is. A parade of his plays and revues flickered past on BBC-TV. The National Film Theater began to spin out a series of his films. Occasions like 70th birthdays tend to bring out hyperbole, and uncritical reassessments blossomed in the press. Some critics went so far as to rank him with Sheridan and Wilde, or to call him England's greatest living playwright. Such judgments overlooked the extent to which Coward...