Word: barneses
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Manipulating the press is an "irresistible temptation" to United States presidents because the press covers everything they do whether it is substantive or not, Fred Barnes, White House correspondent for the Washington Star and Harvard Nieman fellow, said last night in the third lecture of the Nieman series.
Speaking to a small group of students in the Freshman Union, Barnes said, "Although presidents do try to manipulate the press, their ability to succeed is extraordinarily overrated."
It was certainly not the first time a Cunningham piece has driven away an audience. In 1973, Clive Barnes remarked in a review in the New York Times that "there were so many deserters during the performance that one feels that the Cunningham company may have an amnesty problem facing...
Particularly with regard to music, dance's age-old impetus, such an approach is startling: Cunningham's dance is set not "to" music, but "against" it. The two elements occupy the same time-period and physical space, but neither acts in response to the other. The musical background of a...
It is an enormously flexible format: each Event is tailored to the specific performing situation, while the range of the Cunningham repertoire and the almost infinite possibilities of sequence combination insure that no one Event will ever duplicate another choreographically. And as the Times's Barnes has pointed out, each...