Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...figures in this roundelay are a bewitchingly malign marquise (Lindsay Duncan), a good woman tempted to self-betrayal by love (Suzanne Burden), a virgin eager to surrender to ecstasy (Beatie Edney) and the highborn roue who is their sequential wooer (Alan Rickman). The essence of the roue's sexual appeal is a chilly, offhand disinterest. Neither kind nor attentive nor particularly virile, he does not so much inspire devotion as command it; he does not so much arouse ardor as compel his victims to confront their suppressed sexuality. He believes all virtue is fraud, and he delights in destroying women...
Taylor says he has never hired a dancer who did not appeal to "something warm" inside him. But there are frosty spots: Bettie de Jong ("picture a lovely reed dancing") is closest to him, but at times his feelings for her "are like a furry noose which slowly tightens around my neck." He admires the young Twyla Tharp's "magnificent" ambition, but simmers when she disparages his work to London critics. With what must be unprecedented honesty he says he gave Dan Wagoner little solos in Aureole to keep him interested without handing him a fat part. Wagoner, Tharp, Senta...
...Botha government was also having troubles last week with the country's independent judiciary. Court rulings in Natal struck down two emergency regulations, one that prohibited campaigning for the release of detainees and another that restricted press reporting and public comment on unrest. The government is certain to appeal the rulings...
Martha Homer, a financial aids and student employment officer, said recently that a council job would appeal to many work-study students who are anxious to find secretarial work. She said that she would have helped the council find a work-study student had she been asked...
Although grumbling about the quarter-century delay, the Soviets, who annexed Estonia during the war, nevertheless complimented the U.S. for finally deporting the immigrant. Moscow officials left little doubt about his future. Soviet Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said Linnas could appeal for a pardon, but that any delay in the execution of the final sentence "will be shorter than that which is usual for American justice." The Soviet Foreign Ministry later announced that a court would review Linnas' death sentence, as well as evidence against him discovered in the years since his conviction...