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" Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. "

Robert Gottlieb

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" When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills. "

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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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" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "

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" City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile. "

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" Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45. "

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" There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. "

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" The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. "

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" Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable. "

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" You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing. "

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" 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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" The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them. "

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" Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format. "

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" 'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance. "

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" The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right. "

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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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" Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away. "

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" If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich. "

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" Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company. "

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" Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head. "

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" It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again. "

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" 'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. "

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" The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest. "

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" Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple. "

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" I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful. "

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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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" We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically. "

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" How the English love playing at being naughty boys! "

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