Word: arc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century music, Court pulses with such energy that its precise choreography blurs. A theatrical, sinewy Elie Chaib and the cool, correct Carolyn Adams unleash steps that leave dancers in the audience breathless. All the Taylor signature movements are concentrated here: performers extend into precarious postures, arms and hands arc into orbit, leaps become new formations in midair. Few works in the current dance repertory dis play so much vibrancy and amplitude. The piece contains a message as well: modern dance has risen from the floor-where it lay in defiance of ballet-to employ an immense treasure of movement...
...under the partial spell of Ruisdael's sea pieces, his slim parallelograms of rusty sail leaning on the wind-chopped estuary. Most of all, John Constable was inspired by his sense of nature seen fresh, without evident convention: the patches of scudding sunlight on wheat fields, the broken arc of a rainbow, the painterly delight in filling three-quarters of a canvas with high piling clouds. Time and again, one sees images in Constable that might have been lifted straight from Ruisdael. Hadleigh Castle, 1829, with its tall split tower and ruins behind, virtually repeats the motif of Ruisdael...
...Actors' Fund, a showfolks' charity created in 1882 by such stalwarts as P.T Barnum and Edwin Booth, and raise money to build a nursing facility next to the Actors' Fund home in Englewood, N.J. The first 90 minutes of the show were a smooth arc of excitement and unapologetic razzle-dazzle: a lyric Try to Remember by Harry Belafonte, a monologue delivered at giddy white heat by Robin Williams ("What excitement backstage-everyone's standing around in little pools of Perrier"), a dingbat piano solo by Dudley Moore, and film clips of such stars as James...
...confused and essentially stupid doctrine. W.H. Auden's memorable lines about W.B. Yeats describe a sweet metaphysical arc: "Time that is intolerant/ Of the brave and innocent/ And indifferent in a week/ To a beautiful physique/ Worships language and forgives/ Everyone by whom it lives." Yes: time grants pardon. But the law is not in the trade of metaphysics; the law's only hope of survival lies precisely in its struggle to be impartial. The Mailer doctrine suggests that somehow the law should set up separate standards for artists. There are grotesque possibilities here. Who judges the literary...
...will. Her fella, Hank (Frederic Forrest), who works in an automobile graveyard, is just as lackluster. Sitting at the breakfast table with his beer belly peeking through a towel toga, Hank looks like the last of the Caesars-Sid, playing late Brando. The apogée of their romantic arc is long in the past, almost beyond memory. And so, to the cadences of Tom Waits' bluesy songs 'performed by Waits and Crystal Gayle), these restless lovers find spirits to incarnate their once-in-a-nighttime, winnertake-all hopes. For Frannie, it is Ray (Raul Julia), a latino...