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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. A well-known backstage anecdote concerns the occasion when the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper — and every other dancer in the Company was equally suspect.

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Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

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Hair is sexy. Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground.

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