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But how many other shows could claim to have both the white-haired beauty Carmen Dell'Orefice, who's 79, and the sylph-like Niki Taylor, who's 35, on their runway?

Carisa Janes: Looking Good at Every Age: Backstage at Adrienne Vittadini (PHOTOS) Carisa Janes 2011

I went back several times, as young people in standing room are wont to do, and it wasn't until my third or fourth performance that I scored a ticket in the orchestra and realized that Ms. Price was not, physically, quite the sylph-like young thing I had perceived from the very back of the house.

Margaret Price RIP Anne Midgette 2011

The men at times infused humorous elements into the dance such as quickly flicking their hands together behind their backs as they approached Penelope, but it was the sylph-like Dewaele, lithe and dynamic as she rejected one suitor after the other, who stole the show.

Christopher Atamian: Falling for Dance, Again Christopher Atamian 2011

But how many other shows could claim to have both the white-haired beauty Carmen Dell'Orefice, who's 79, and the sylph-like Niki Taylor, who's 35, on their runway?

Carisa Janes: Looking Good at Every Age: Backstage at Adrienne Vittadini (PHOTOS) Carisa Janes 2011

When I met Slim 40 years later, she was in her 70s, no longer the sylph-like creature that had earned her nickname, but still a paragon of chic.

A Salute to Women in Uniform Annette Tapert 2011

So much more beautiful than the one likeness King had seen of her that for a second he doubted who she was -- more lovely than he had imagined her even in his dreams -- she stood there, human and warm and real, who had begun to seem a myth, clad in gauzy transparent stuff that made no secret of sylph-like shapeliness and looking nearly light enough to blow away.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

And the idea of Lydia in a sheer Roman chemise, reclining sylph-like on a couch, did send her into hysterical giggles.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

           BackWurdz appeared sylph-like at my shoulder with the sizzling eggs and b. that I needed to fortify the old noggin, but even after squaring the elbows and getting down to it, I couldn't complete the quatrain plus a couplet that I hoped to incorporate into a bootleg of borrowed beats.

Hip-Hop Lit: New and Noteworthy 2010

And as for those still bent on sneering at fair-weather foodies and sylph-like gourmands who just like being part of the hottest new trend, take comfort in this prediction from Mr. Hack: "Gardening will be next."

The New Food Groupies Katherine Wheelock 2010

Ms. von Aroldingen's dull painting rises behind a 19th-century-inspired marvel of ballet art dressed in Scottish-flavored dance attire (by Karinska), with a central sylph-like ballerina radiant in pink, and a tam-wearing Scotsman trimmed in tartan.

In Lincoln Kirstein's Shadow 2009