Marina Harss
By Marina Harss
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Culture More Arms Than Shiva
The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein By Martin Duberman Alfred A. Knopf, 736 pages, $37.50. Barely a quarter of the way through “The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein,” Martin Duberman’s voluminous new biography of the arts patron who, through his partnership with choreographer George Balanchine, transformed American ballet, the subject has undertaken — with varying degrees of…
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Culture Dancing with Demons
Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins By Amanda Vaill Broadway, 539 pages, $40. By all accounts, Jerome Robbins, the man behind “Fancy Free,” “Dances at a Gathering,” “West Side Story” and “Fiddler on the Roof” — and, for many years, George Balanchine’s number two at the New York City Ballet — was a perfectionist, an…
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