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- AILING. Rudolf Nureyev, 54, incomparably graceful Russian
- ballet dancer and former director of the Paris Opera Ballet;
- from pericarditis and, reportedly, from AIDS. Born in Irkutsk
- and trained in Leningrad, Nureyev displayed expressiveness and
- mastery as a dancer, which won him a solo role with the Kirov
- in 1958; three years later, he defected on tour in Paris and
- became a celebrated dancer in the West.
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