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...BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, Totem Pole Playhouse, Fayetteville...
...first instructed Isadora in the dance. Fresh off a cattle boat from New York in 1899, she and her brother haunted the Louvre, particularly its Greek sculpture collection, where Isadora sought models for her movements. Once they were found, she cast off the traditional ballet corset and slippers, danced barefoot in a transparent Greek tunic to a storm of mixed scandal and approval. By the time she died at the age of 49 in 1927, when her long red shawl caught in the wheel of a sports car and strangled her, she had ushered in the whole modern movement...
...nation as lush and warm as Indonesia, life goes on. The skies of Java are dotted with bright kites flown by bright-eyed barefoot boys. In Makasar, spotted deer tethered to trees keep the grass cut short beside the boulevards; while, on the waterfront, Buginese sailmakers squat on the docks sewing large squares of canvas together. The spicy aroma of cooking fires drifts lazily in the twilight haze on the Musi River in Palembang, and the evening sun casts a warm orange glow on the great white mosque of Banda Atjeh. In Padang, the bustling bazaars are piled high with...
...most-touted-new-director of the age, Nichols repeatedly demonstrates that this is his first picture. Even his genius for fast-paced stage comedy (Luv, The Odd Couple, and Barefoot in the Park) can't be found in Virginia Woolf; possibly it got lost in poor attempts at fancy camerawork and cutting...
...Jerusalem on July 15, 1099, slaughtered the Turkish garrison and then ran amuck, firing mosques and synagogues, battering down doors, killing, killing, killing. Even as the slaughter of 40,000 people was still going on, the leaders of the Crusade, the barons of France, Germany and Sicily, humbly went "barefoot, with sighs and tears, through the holy places where Jesus Christ had lived in the flesh," devoutly kissing the "places where his feet had trod." In the end, wrote Chronicler William of Tyre, "the city offered a spectacle of such a slaughter that the victors themselves could not help...