Word: adams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concluding that Adam Clayton. Powell's offenses constituted "gross misconduct," the special House committee investigating his affairs last week proposed that he be publicly condemned and assessed $40,000. It also asked the Justice Department for "prompt and appropriate action" on the evidence of legal infractions it has gathered...
...wreathed in white neon, blazes brilliantly and then goes dark. A figure outlined in pulsing, multicolored lights appears and begins to dance. The houselights come up. The dancer walks forward. Out of the primeval egg, Adam is born...
...direct kin, obviously, to John Milton's sturdy epic of the same name. Neon eggs are unusual enough, but more unusual was the fact that the work was hatched by London's Royal Ballet, the venerable guardian of traditional repertory. What is more, the roles of Adam and Eve were danced by the foremost duo in romantic ballet, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn...
Bolt of Neon. There was precious little romance this time. Nureyev, attired only in white tights, was a rambunctious Adam in his opening solo, kicking up his heels like a colt let out to pasture. But Paradise is not complete until Adam lies down to rest-whereupon Eve is born, costumed in a white plastic minidress. The two embrace in curious, mandala-like configurations, testing each other like momentary sculptors of flesh...
...knowledge, temptation appears in the form of five male dancers in green jump suits who slither and weave, snakelike, about Eve. As the scenery changes to a large rectangle covered with eyes and a huge lipsticked mouth, Eve succumbs to the tempters and is spirited away. Alone and frenzied, Adam circles the stage and, running full speed up a ramp, dives spectacularly headfirst through the mouth. The music becomes increasingly cacophonous and, as bolts of neon lightning flare overhead, there is a blinding flash and Adam dies. Eve clumsily drags him upstage and kneels, cradling his twisted, stumped body...