Instead, he reimagined Petipa's creation as a new piece, "Harlequinade," with at least two marvellous roles.
Quirky, to say the least, but rather marvellous too.
He was almost prissily bipartisan, though every word, not least his favourite "Marvellous!", murmured west Sydney from the TV set.Cricket, he often said, was above all a game of good and ill fortune.
Visitors to a new William Blake show opening in Oxford will learn much about a "strange and marvellous creature", not least that the possibly 5ft 4in artist must have had considerable strength to have operated the heavy oak wooden press which took up so much of his small London studio.
Sometimes, the least likely or least promising venues yielded marvellous material.
This was all marvellous and modern, in principle, at least.
There is, first, the impending retirement (or at least aging) of the men's biggest stars, that marvellous trifecta of Federer-Nadal-Djokovic that has dominated for more than a decade.
But when it comes to conjuring marvellous things from a football, he is at least their equal.
Surely it is quite easy to imagine even more marvellous achievements e.g., the creation of many worlds at least as good as this one!
It's quick…it's marvellous whereas if a patients coming to the Norfolk and Norwich it is at least a few weeks to be seen normally".
