Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those in the business trace the roots of the new music to the Jesus movement of the late '60s. The election of Jimmy Carter, a born-again Christian, gave it a boost, and the ascent of Ronald Reagan propelled it into the big time. Its chief audience is the generation of the New Squares, primarily young whites, 24 to 35, who like the beat of rock but disavow the drugs and sexual permissiveness that are associated with it. "The people who buy my records like danceable, modern music, but they don't want to feel guilty supporting music with trashy...
...offer in her painstaking book. Today she is one of the glories of the New York City Ballet, a sunny allegro virtuoso. In his introduction, British Critic Clement Crisp likens her style to bravura pianism or flawless coloratura. As Ashley documents it, however, her career was not a prestissimo ascent. It took a decade of intense, disciplined practice to perfect her astounding technique and years onstage to learn how to present herself effectively. In the early pages, the author-dancer shows just how lost a youngster can be, even in the country's best ballet training ground...
...history at Harvard includes a repid ascent up the ladder--full law professor at 30, Dean of the Law School at 37, and appointment to president on January 11, 1971--all by the time...
...group of paintings and drawings, this show epitomizes the Met's leanings to cultural Reaganism: private opulence, public squalor. Weeks of private viewings have led up to its actual public opening, this week. Rarely has the idea of artistic heroism been so conspicuously tied to the ascent of the social mountain. But now all this will change. The general public, one may predict, will see very little. Its members will struggle for a peek through a milling scrum of backs; will be swept at full contemplation speed (about 30 seconds per image) through the galleries; will find their hope...
...Dead (and on the eve of World War II as well), are an invitation to the portentous. But for once the simplifying narrative imperatives of the screen and the imperatives of the talent assembled for the effort) have served a difficult book well. In recounting what is either an ascent to Calvary or a descent into hell Screenwriter Guy Gallo has carved a clear path through the tangled subtropic that is Lowry's imaginative world...