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" The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. "
Robert Gottlieb
Tone
Relationship
Ballet
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" After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world? "
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" I hated Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' when it first turned up, and then when it was televised, and then when it returned. "
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" Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be? "
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" Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. "
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" No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors. "
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" The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning. "
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" What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time. "
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" There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation. "
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" You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study. "
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Life
You
" Paris, as always, is swarming with Americans, and these days, it's also swarming with hamburgers. Oddly, though, it's not typically the Americans who are pursuing the perfect burger on the perfect bun with the obligatory side of perfect coleslaw; the Americans are pursuing the perfect blanquette de veau. "
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Always
" Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. "
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" I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. "
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" You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear. "
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" You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text. "
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May
Text
You
" Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work. "
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Capable
Good
" Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater. "
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" The mysteries and scandals of the Kremlin are nothing compared to the mysteries and scandals of the Bolshoi. "
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" The Iron Curtain may be a thing of the past, but Mother Russia is as mysterious as ever. "
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" With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel. "
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" Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. "
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" Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy. "
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" The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities. "
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" The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki. "
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