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- Aug. 03, 1992: Martins:Bash Dancer
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 03, 1992 AIDS: Losing the Battle
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 77
- Martins: Bash Dancer
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- <p>By Michael Quinn/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> With all that gauze and grace onstage, it's easy to forget
- that ballet stars are made strictly of trained muscle and iron
- will. New York City Ballet principals Peter Martins, 45, and
- Darci Kistler, 28, used to be a sublime partnership on stage,
- and last December, some time after Martins had become the
- company's chief, the most powerful dance job in America, they
- got married. But last week the two titanic temperaments clashed.
- Martins was arrested in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for beating
- Kistler, who called the police. They had been out partying, and
- afterward she wanted to talk about their problems. He wanted to
- sleep. A few days later, they were seen arm in arm and Kistler
- had the assault charges dismissed. But Martins might do well to
- remember a line about ballerinas in his book Far from Denmark:
- "Some are nice, some are not so nice. But they are all tough,
- merciless."
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