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Maria Tallchief, 88

Tallchief, a leading figure in 20th century dance, whose career spanned the years 1942-1965, and who at one time was both wife and muse to choreographer George Balanchine, died of pancreatic cancer at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago on April 11. She was 88.

Born Elizabeth Maria Tallchief in Fairfax, Oklahoma in 1925, her mother was Scots-Irish, but her father, Alexander Tallchief, was a chief in the Osage Nation, and her great-grandfather, Peter Bigheart, was crucial in negotiating oil revenues for the Osage tribe.

Although a ballet career was a challenge for a Native-American girl of her day, the Tallchief family moved to Beverly Hills, California, in 1933, and Maria, who also was a gifted pianist, began studying ballet there. At the age of 12 she became a pupil of Bronislava Nijinska, the dancer, choreographer and sister of the fabled Vaslav Nijinsky.

By 17, Tallchief was in New York auditioning. She joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and performed with the company from 1942-47, quickly rising to featured soloist. Balanchine joined the Ballet Russe in 1944, and he and Tallchief married two years later. In 1947 she accompanied her husband to the Paris Opera where she appeared in his “Serenade,” “Apollon musagete” and “Baiser de la Fee.” Then, back in New York, Balanchine began creating what would become the New York City Ballet, and Tallchief became his leading ballerina.

In addition to her daughter, Tallchief is survived by her son-in-law Stuart Brainerd and two grandchildren, Stephen and Alexandra.

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Episode 363

Fuck Havasu, National Foot Health Month, Jonathan gets (legally) served, a vortex of NB Jas, Seth gets a 3D TV, pegleg pedophiles, Remote Administration Tools, Wrigley's Kid-Killing Gum, The American Muscle Car Driving Experience, talking to your kids about alcohol, Gay Ski Week, The Moonshine Festival, COPS Reloaded, Methbusters, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, vag billboards, the biggest complaints of airline travel, The Peed-Surgeon, UYD's Cancelled Television Show of the Week, Hyper Masculine Images, a prescription for Playboy, bass fishing in schools, retrofitting fire station ladders, Dear Jonathan, Terracotta Brewery, Arizona balloon waste, the effects of hugs, The Year of Alabama Food, getting to the bottom of Mind's Eye The Horse, and Jonathan eats food from New Orleans.

UYD: The ladder is the fucking hose.

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Gerald Klee, 86

Gerald D. Klee, a retired psychiatrist and LSD expert who participated in experiments with the hallucinogenic drug on volunteer servicemen at U.S. military installations in the 1950s, has died. He was 86.

Klee said soldiers from military posts around the country were brought to the Edgewood Arsenal and Aberdeen Proving Ground installations in Maryland to participate in experiments involving various drugs and chemical warfare agents, of which the hallucinogens were a small part.

"They were mostly enlisted men — there were a few commissioned officers — but they were mostly unlettered and rather naive," Klee said. "Now the people knew they were volunteering, the bonus was leave time — seeing their girlfriends and mothers and that kind of thing. They had a lot of free time, and most of them enjoyed it."

Klee said he and his colleagues from the university tried to explain to the volunteers what to expect.

"They were told it was very important to national security," he said in the Evening Sun interview.

Before the experiments commenced, Klee experimented with LSD.

"I figured that if I was going to study this stuff, then I've got to experience it myself," he told the newspaper. "I felt obliged to take it for experimental reasons and also because I didn't think it would be fair to administer a drug to someone else that I hadn't taken myself."

The LSD was slipped into cocktails at a party in the soldiers' honor. While this approach garnered criticism, Klee said the Army and civilian researchers acted responsibly.

"I was there and I didn't like it, but thought I might be of help to the victims," Klee told the Washington Post in the 1975 interview.

The civilian team quickly learned about those who had experienced "bad trips." He said he did not know of any lasting ill effects on the soldiers but added that university researchers followed the cases only during their month stay at Edgewood.

His four marriages ended in divorce. Survivors include five children, Kenneth A. Klee, of South Orange, N.J., Brian D. Klee of Waterford, Conn., Susan E. Klee of Chevy Chase, Louise E. Klee of Takoma Park and Sheila G. Klee of New York City; a brother; and 11 grandchildren.

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Episode 362

Complimenting Jonathan's hair, Michael Jordon, becoming Adam Levine, Mark Wahlberg Water, stroking is genius, USA Today Snapshots, harv those lungs, hair salon word play, peppering in movie quotes, C. Everett Koop's Obituary, Pedoscopes, putting inmates to work, UYD behind bars, barrel forward/scream back, National Flour Month, Bon Jovi's "'sup Now?", Ask Jonathan, sleep texting, UYD's Cancelled Cop Show of the Week, 3 Doors Down from State Fair, shitty showers, black box event data recorders, polluting backyard grills, in demand quinoa, Wicked Single, and Happy Hawaiians vs The Herda Hadda. Just be cool and get your act together.

UYD: Hard water, soft pressure.

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Episode 361

Shooting bald eagles, how will you use your tax refund?, writing off beverages, gas got real, revisiting the divorce of Nick and Jessica, pre-plasma, National Feminine Improvement Month, you can't go deep undercover with a Facebook page, the odds of dying in America, what's the deal with hydrating?, The Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Brag Board, reunited in aggression, UYD's Cancelled TV Show of the Week, Game of MRI's, what's trending on myspace, white dudes exposing themselves, what to do in an active shooting situation, Official State Firearms, what to look for in home listings, Seth visits Adam Levine's installation, closeness in the doing, pussy prints in prison, and do worms have parents? Check it and follow.

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