Word: ballets
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...unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration." Tiffany lamps are Camp, she says by way of illustration, and so is a fondness for Scopitone films and the lurid pseudo journalism of the weekly New York National Enquirer. Turn-of-the-century postcards are Camp; so is enthusiasm for the ballet Swan Lake and the 1933 movie King Kong. Dirty movies are Camp -provided one gets no sexual kick out of them-and so are the ideas of the French playwright Jean Genet, an ex-thief and pederast who boasts about it. "Genet's statement that 'the only criterion...
...close friends, but miles apart in temperament. Extravert Rauschenberg is now touring Japan with the Merce Cunningham ballet, for which he whips up a spontaneous stage set a night out of the jetsam of commercial products. More reticent, Jasper Johns plays the position of a mandarin: his aim is to make art about art. In his beach house on Edisto Island, S.C., and his Riverside Drive penthouse in Manhattan, Johns surrounds himself with art works of his friends, from Marcel Duchamp's Dada gimcracks to Andy Warhol's soup boxes, which he uses in lieu of extra furniture...
More than 100,000 Catholics, including 14 cardinals and 300 bishops, are expected to attend this spiritual spectacular. On the program are Masses in various rites, consecration by the Pope of six new bishops from five continents, and an Indian ballet on "The Eucharist and the New Man," with 1,500 dancers and musicians. The congress will also discuss how the church can ease world problems, particularly poverty, hunger and overpopulation. The nine-day congress will cost upwards...
...marked proclivity for drunkenness and rape. German and Dutch students pre fer sadism. England's youth, except for a bully gang of Glasgow girls picketing against free love, apparently derives thrills from its Mods and Rockers, heavy petting, and a corps of pimply-faced boys at the Royal Ballet School...
...epic undertaking, Béjart amassed more than 200 musicians and singers on the circular stage with 80 dancers from 24 nations, ranging from Japan to Jamaica. They performed in bare feet and ballet slippers, melding classical, folk, modern, African and religious dance into a ritualistic tribute to the brotherhood...