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...Over the next six months, the teenager, from Ada, Okla., endured four operations, progressively losing parts of his tongue, throat and jaw. Neither the surgery nor searing radiation treatments contained the cancer. In February 1984, the boy voted "most valuable athlete" of his class died, a disfigured and skeletal wraith...
...today's terms, he was not only John Elway, the top draft choice, but also Dan Marino, the rookie of the year. The Heisman runner-up or, the way he looked at it, the "loser," was Joe Theismann of South River, N.J., and Notre Dame, a mouthy wraith. He still says, "The classic line of the No. 2 guy is that it was enough just to be considered. That is garbage. I may have said the same thing, but deep down inside, I didn't want Jim to be successful, not then, not for a long time...
...pure, timeless classicism and of ethereal visions fashioned out of yards of Chantilly lace. More often he sheds convention like an overcoat in springtime. There are reckless forays into nudity, called see-through in the catalogue; avalanches of silk that swell the exemplary trapeze into a balloon; decadent wraith-wear for psychedelic occasions. Is this foolery (all done before the designer turned 40) vulgar, silly, nutty? Yes, probably all three. But some of it is inspired. Viewed today, the 1967 "African" collection, which could be subtitled variations on a beaded curtain, looks fresh, funny and unabashedly theatrical. Because the clothes...
...player. Orange County, most renowned as the seat of Disneyland and a stronghold of the John Birch Society, got Browne going-away. He was playing local hoote-nannies by his late teens. Before he was 20, he was off to New York accompanying Nico, Andy Warhol's rock wraith. By his mid-20s he had one hit single, three solid albums and a reputation as the kingpin of the Los Angeles folk-rock scene...
Jerome Robbins is another choreographer about whom she has mixed feelings. In general the JL format of Going to the Dance-relatively brief, tightly focused pieces on specific works or companies- is adequate, but Robbins trails through the book like a wraith. One gets only pieces of a critique: that his masterpieces are Afternoon of a Faun and Dances at a Gathering, that he is often too clever by half, that he is good at finding the moves that enhance young dancers. One finishes the book feeling the need of a real assessment of Robbins partly because he draws such...