Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black swim suits, against a plain blackdrop, contorting their bodies in strict but living counterpoint to Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D Minor. It had none of the splendiferous sets and costumes, the "story" told in pantomime, or the applause-bidding entrechats of a star dancer which attract the matinee mobs; yet it brought down the house. Balanchine's geometric wizardry made the girls' bodies spell out Bach's music for all eyes to read...
Antioch's actress is Cynthia Mamuta, who had "a magnetic beauty which could attract, creating intense desire; but could not hold, for within that magnificent body lurked a spirit easily stirred, which sometimes repelled one." Together with her handsome scriptwriter, Marcus Macer, she was sent by the Emperor Trajan to Antioch to satirize the growing sect of Christians out of existence. After 263 pages of intrigue, violence and lust, the story erupts in a holocaust of earthquake and conversion. The earth literally swallows up Marcus, while Cynthia does a quick change from a lubricous actress to a contrite Christian...
...fine collection of both men's work with equally excellent representatives of two other notable Spanish moderns, Joan Miro and Juan Gris, the present exhibition at Boston's Institute of Modern Art is not only this season's most colorful and significant showing but also one which will attract many who are not regular gallery-goers...
Several uneasy pharmaceutical groups are working energetically on: a complete shake-up of pharmacy colleges; a revised, realistic curriculum and fresh faculty blood; a publicity program to boost respect for pharmacy and attract young druggists...
...DeWolf Hopper's six, hopped to Manhattan for the opera opening, appeared in a chinchilla coat which she boasted was the only one in Hollywood-except for 88-year-old Lady (Elsie de Wolfe) Mendl's. She declared she would never marry again, explained why: "What I attract is too young. What I should attract...