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Nureyev: The Life
By Julie Kavanagh
New York: Pantheon; 2007. 800 p.,
illustrated, $37.50.
It's hard to believe there's now a generation, maybe two, that's never heard of Rudolf Nureyev. Starting in the '60s, his surname was a household word combining the high culture of Maria Callas, the iconoclastic glamour of Andy Warhol, and the erotic kick of Mick Jagger. Nureyev was a dancer, and when he defected from East to West in 1961, leaving Russia's Kirov Ballet for solitary stardom in the free world, he put classical dance smack at the center of popular culture. With the Soviet Union and the United States still locked in the Cold War, Nureyev, overnight, became a worldwide symbol of freedom. Talk about a spotlight.
And was any face better made for the spotlight, the flash bulb, than Rudi's? He had the high cheekbones of a big cat, the rapt eyes of a Romantic poet, the sensual lips of a cad. It was the decade of the photographer, and Nureyev was like solar heat, answering the camera with his own Promethean fire. His burning desire was to dance every day, every role, everywhere. His...
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