Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
Robert Adams Gottliebis an American writer and editor. From 1987 to 1992 he was the editor of The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
ballet dancers degree interest middle ranks
You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.
great
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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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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'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets.
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The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
leaves
'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance.
infant
Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head.
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I will do everything in my power to make sure he gets a fair trial and that the presumption of innocence is alive again in that courtroom.
prodigy work
If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
suspect
Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.
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Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.
The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.
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If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
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An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.