Word: applauded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the audience came to see, and the dancing overshadowed everything else. Before the performance was well under way, a lithe, vivacious ballerina named Alia Sizova stopped the show with her lyrical dancing in the pas de trois of Act I. Sweltering balletomanes interrupted a dozen more times to applaud Alexander Pavlovsky's nimble jester, the ethereal cygnets of Act II, the despairing swans of the finale. In the difficult dual role of Odette-Odile, Ballerina Inna Zubkovskaya was an airy Swan Queen and a menacing Black Swan; when the cast changed for the second night's performance...
...While I applaud new conversions to fiscal prudence, I would be more convinced about Senator Proxmire if his actual voting record this year didn't show enthusiastic support for the more grandiose spending proposals of the New Frontier, plus some that even the New Frontier has opposed, including $250 million for educational...
...backdrop of a vast, bleak, windowed city. Uncoiling themselves, the dancers make sudden taut, tentative movements, then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair. To a suddenly quickened rhythm, a Negro dancer bounds onstage, is quickly surrounded by mocking, finger-snapping whites. For a time they applaud his acrobatics, then stare stonily as he wanders pathetically away. As a new stageful of dancers jig in a mechanistic imitation of gaiety, they are suddenly obscured by a billowing drop decorated with atomic symbols. At ballet's end the music breaks off with chill abruptness, leaving the original four...
...baby in me, because I think of him and not the audience," she explained. "I took care not to push my high notes, because too much diaphragm might bump him on the head. He was quiet while I was singing, but as soon as I stopped he started to applaud with his feet...
...across the country. "Those who have lived in South Carolina," wrote the Rev. Ralph E. Cousins Jr., "can vouch for the demonic influence Mr. Waring and his newspaper have had on South Carolina. It is tragic that the university owned by 21 Episcopal dioceses of the Episcopal Church would applaud such a record...