"The agreed upon story," writes Mallon, whose best selling historical novels include "Henry and Clara" and "Dewey Defeats Truman," "that it had all been Liddy's harebrained idea . Seemed to be taking hold not only in the minds of the prosecutors but in the heads of half the guys peddling it from the to Re Elect. The youngest of them, so eager for promotion, were lining up to testify to all kinds of stuff they knew nothing about; they just asked for a script.

Under Nijinsky's direction, the dancers moved in profile, slicing the air like blades (The Afternoon of a Faun), or hunched over, hammering their feet into the floorboards (The Rite of Spring). The approach was analytic, the look "ugly", the emotions discomforting. Of these works, only one, The Afternoon of a Faun, survives today, but it is enough to show that Nijinsky ushered ballet into modernism.

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