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Other segments from the episode on April 30, 1990
Writing Simone de Beauvoir's Biography.
Biographer Deirdre Bair. Her latest book is a biography of French writer, intellectual and feminist Simone De Beauvoir. Bair has also written a biography of Samuel Beckett.
Teo Macero's Quirky Charm.
Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews "The Best of Teo Macero," a reissue of Macero's so-called "third stream" work from the 50s. It's on Stash records.
Choreographer and Dancer Laura Dean on the "Natural High" of Spinning.
Choreographer and dancer Laura Dean. Her company's performing a two-week retrospective at the Joyce Theater in New York (through May 6).
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