this kind of brilliant notion of Balanchine's didiving the body vertically is Dickie Buckle's -- at least, I first met it in HIS book about Balanchine, which I must have read 5-10 years ago; I have been wondering about it ever sinceand most days think he is onto something -- Buckle was the first critic I read who got me excited, I have a lot of respect and affection for him, and feel I owe him a debt