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An inheritance beyond price; Ballet.(No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Story and Rudolf Nureyev: The Life)(Book review)
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The Economist (US)
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October 13, 2007
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Acosta's magic
What Carlos Acosta may have gained from Rudolf Nureyev
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THERE is a telling moment in Carlos Acosta's autobiography "No Way Home"--more telling, perhaps, than the ballet star himself seems to know. In 1991, when he was 18 and the winner of both the Lausanne and Paris international ballet competitions, he travelled to the Italian fishing village of Positano to collect yet another prize. Off the coast is an island owned at that time by...