Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
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The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof.
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Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
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Richard Pilbrow's lighting can turn a coin into an asteroid and an idea into an apparition.