Flew a B-17 Flying Fortress in WW2, danced with Martha Graham and on Broadway, hoping Barack Obama and this generation can save the world from itselt.
Samantha pulled her own plug at exactly 4 PM on a sunny summer Sunday, surrounded by family and the purring comfort of Ninja and Kabuki, her 2 beloved alley cats. She was 97 and died as she had lived—-in charge. She’d refused hospital and hospice, but…
She’d been in American Ballet Theater, corps de ballet, plus a few solo bits, a lean 5 foot 6, dark eyes, honey skin, long arms, legs, neck, serious expression. Her dancing was clean but impersonal. I wondered if she thought being in a…