Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game moves upfield into the offensive positions, the drawbacks of a limited soccer background become obvious. Americans still cannot make the long, skittering run to the goal, delicately guiding the ball, that distinguishes players from Europe and South America. Those quicksilver skills come only after a lifetime's experience in the game, and American players, until recently, have simply taken up soccer too late. Notes Caribous veteran Forward Brian Tinnion: "In England, we learn to walk, we learn to run, and then we learn to play soccer...
Onstage, Misha and Gelsey were magic from the start. A trial-run pas de deux from Don Quixote dazzled audiences in Winnipeg and later in Washington. Offstage, a love affair flared up between them, along with much professional bickering. Against a common background of rigorous classical training, Baryshnikov relied on instinct, Gelsey on analysis. Rehearsals became long and exasperating. They argued about the meaning of different positions. He: "It's arabesque, it's position." She: "No, it can be different in every ballet." There was also some competitive brain-picking. Gelsey sought the secrets of the Kirov's impeccable style...
...other comer is Atlanta. Although the city has had an amateur dance company since 1929, it was nearly defunct in 1972. Then Chuck Fischl, an energetic New Yorker with a theatrical background, was brought in as general manager. He and Artistic Director Robert Barnett decided that the company should turn professional and expand. Fischl, now only 28, began promoting ballet throughout Georgia. Result: the company, which once had to venture as far as Alaska to find audiences, now runs two summer schools in Georgia and has established homes away from home in Savannah, Athens and Augusta...
...Multi-media" makes the hour-and-a-half show sound more complicated than it really is. Three Radcliffe students alternate in delivering prepared monologues on the history and current status of Radcliffe while slides flash on two screens, accompanied by occasional background music. The format is not all that different from an Astronomy 8 lecture...
...added that the committee looked for a candidate who would be a professional with a strong background in police work, and who was a "good listener." The committee unanimously agreed that Chafin fit both qualifications, Wyatt said...