Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest ballet company had come a long way from the days of Voltaire's Camargo, who was the first dancer to shorten her skirts, and Marie Sallé, who, in 1734, shocked a London correspondent into reporting that "she has dared to appear . . . without pannier, skirt or bodice . . . Apart from her corset and petticoat, she wore only a simple dress of muslin draped about her in the manner of a Greek statue...
...INTENTIONS: "When you see me standing up there, mumbling to myself ... all dressed up in silk like a great pin cushion, you mustn't think of me as something quite apart, at a distance from you, uninterested in your feelings and your concerns. On the contrary, I am standing there like a great pin cushion for you to stick pins into me-all the things you want ... for yourself ... are part of the prayer that I am saying, and I couldn't prevent them being part of my intentions in saying the Mass, even if I wanted...
...chestnut tree spoke to Berlin of courage and danger, which are never far apart; in other words, of peace...
...moved in to the net, won a brilliant volley, but ended up on the seat of his pants. The crowd's applause turned to "Aah" (Forest Hills for booing) at the umpire's ruling: Quist had forfeited the point by touching the net. After that, Quist fell apart, watched flat-footed as Schroeder's aces whistled past, lost the final two sets 6-0, 6-0. Up in Row P, a lady murmured: "Cruel...
...murderers (Farley Granger) is horrified by what they have done and gradually comes apart. The other (John Dall) is almost hard enough to carry them both. He is particularly excited by the presence of the teacher, a sort of armchair nihilist who first infected the boys' minds with the idea that there are superior men, above all moral law. Dall really wants to lay the corpse at his master's feet, the way a cat brings in a slaughtered robin. When he finally does, he finds that the teacher's endorsement of murder was always purely academic...