As a partner, he was gallant and on the spot to catch Ms. Somogyi in the beautiful swoons and dives, often with wrists crossed in images that only Balanchine could conceive.
But both were beautiful: one a diving poke-in during a goalmouth scramble, the other a laser shot to the roof of the net on a short-handed breakaway that snapped a 2-2 tie.
On the way they meet a beautiful Indian-British diving instructor, a Spanish girl who apparently will let any man into her bath as long as he asks "May I enter?" in Spanish and the artist father of one of the bachelors who had abandoned the boy when he was still in the womb.
The Caribbean delivers on its promise of great weather most of the year, beautiful beaches, great diving, even better sailing, seafood and a slower island pace.
Seven of the club's beautiful men rotate diving days.
In 90 minutes of acutely observed portraiture gently tinted with humor, Ms. Jones plays more than a dozen men and women participating in an open-mike evening of poetry for immigrants, held at a friendly dive in "beautiful South Queens," a step up from the Starbucks, where the sound of the espresso machine created irksome acoustical problems.
'It was like sky-diving, amaaaaazing, beautiful, the ropes were like a spinal chord,' she tells me, as we settle in a small room off the main restaurant.
There was further concern for the visitors as Ivica Olic sold Alan Hutton a beautiful dummy, but Russell Martin dived in and forced Olic to shoot wide and moments later the Norwich defender performed further heroics to keep a Darijo Srna shot from crossing the line.
But know this: at least in Saipan, you'll experience those unusual problems in a setting that is quite spectacularly beautiful, with beaches, scuba diving, golf, festivals, hiking, history, wildlife (some of which has been eaten into near-extinction, much of which hasn't), still more beaches, a charmingly weird mascot and year-round temperatures in the 80s.
Today, on emerging exhilarated from a first dive into the beautiful waters at sunset, the twenty-first century sounds of the lake are of fishermen, singing as they set off to fling their nets out in the gloaming.
