What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

The law changes and flows like water, and ... the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent."

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper . . . every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.