Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Armida, a kind of ancestor of the Queen of the Night, arrives in a cloud of darkness and swirling smoke, surrounded by a small zoo of reptiles and other phantasmagoric creatures played by dancers. The staging of the final battle between the Christians and the Saracens is a novel affair that can only be called aero-choreography: dancers and acrobats pirouette, somersault, tumble and flip high above the stage in stylized but effective combat. All the while, Home, as Rinaldo, looks on from atop a grim, menacing war machine. It is a memorable image...
...FAMILY AFFAIR...
...life that runs through about a third of the book. It's a suspicious way to begin, as though you are more apt to develop an interest in Lang's writing if you've been enticed by her experiences. There is something intriguing about a person whose earliest love affair might have started with seduction by a Red Sox player in the front seat of a red convertible that his fans gave him--especially when she won't verify the rumor but doesn't seem perturbed by it. But this is a distracting introduction to her poems and plays...
...boys from Philly are not the fleet-footed folks of a few years ago. Penn has already dropped two Ivy contests, getting shellacked by Brown 4-0 and then losing to Dartmouth in an overtime affair...
Renoir's La Marseillaise, tonight, 7:30 p.m.; Antonioni's Cronaca Di Un Amore, (Story of a Love Affair), Sunday...