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... John Tenniel, illustrator and cartoonist; 1824 Charles Blondin (Jean-Francois Gravelet), tightrope walker; 1890 Vladimir Nijinski, dancer; 1894 Ben Hect, novelist and film maker; 1896 Philip Showalter Hench, American scientist who discovered cortisone; ...
... it is being a ballet dancer. Some well-known exceptions, such as Anna Pavlova dying at 50 and Rudolf Nureyev at 55, even Nijinsky at 61, might appear to disprove that, but on many a page the author’s penchant for detail provides lists of birth and death ...
... more moving in the end. Mark Tompkins's Hommages consists of four short solos exploring aspects of personalities including Nijinsky and Josephine Baker. Tompkins is a performer of considerable energy and skill, though in four works he risks exceeding the ...
... Gabriele D’Annunzio, poet, dramatist, soldier and nationalist; 1881 Kemal Ataturk, Turkish general and president; 1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer; 1912 Kylie Tennant, novelist; 1914 Peter Roth, co-founder Camphill Community; 1922 ...
... Hannah Gordon: 59 emperor (assassinated); 1! Greco, artist; 1861 Elisha Otis, inventor of the safet 1950 Vaslav Nijinsky, ball dancer; 1973 Pablo Spanish painter and who pioneered Cubism; 1 General Omar Bradley; 19 Marian Anderson, opera § 1998 Dr (James) ...
... great race, with Mill Reef winning in '7l, and Brigadier Gerard following a year on. In 1970, Lester Piggott h jumped off Nijinsky's ba after his defeat of Bl The Minstrel ('77), Troy ('79), Shergar ('81), Dancing Brave ('B6), Reference Point (87),: Nashwan ...
... by the even more ungainly | Tony Slattery soon began to | | make sense: Mullarkey's \| hoofing proved more \ Lewinsky than Nijinsky. However, his nimble writing and sure-footed acting provided a diverting late | afternoon’s entertainment. | Not bad for ...
... Crown, it was a Classic everyone wanted to win, but no-one has lifted it, the Derby and the 2,000 Guineas since the great Nijinsky achieved the feat 30 years ago. Nowadays, few even bother to try. Not that other people’s apathy will be allowed to rairt ...
... or spiked high-heel sandles. Whose style inspires you? A variety of different people from Audrey Hepburn to Quentin Crisp, Nijinsky right up to Madonna. Never wear it, but could never throw it out? I wear it or I just don't have it — that’s a big rule for ...
... movie filtered through an American hip-hop sensibility, Remeo Must Die is a disappointingly humdrum showcase for Jet Li, the Nijinsky of martial arts dynamos. Sleek visuals and flashy tricks from cameraman turned director Andrzej Bartowiak and the not in ...
... Thursday, 2pm, Saturday, 2.30 pm } Premieres of Le Sacre-du Printemps ~London - a radical interpretation of the. - Film ‘Nijinsky-Stravinsky production - Festival ...
... down, modern European classic, so | was more than pleasedto read The Unexpurgated Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, edited with love by Joan Acocella W. Nijinsky achieved atness and madness almost simultaneously - his - dancing was a kind of ; commentary on the ...