Word: bellum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instance, in its performance of the classic "Swan Lake," the company wore blue costumes rather than white. And the dancers introduced a new perspective on "Giselle," setting it in ante-bellum Louisiana rather than the forest of the Rhineland...
MANY OF HISTORY'S great cataclysms, so it seems, have followed periods of extreme indulgence. The legendary decadence of Rome prior to the invasion of the barbarians, the opulence of the French court on the eve of the Revolution, the elegance of the ante-bellum South and the insouciance of Europe during the 1920's are all instances of a culture's last frenzy before the deluge Accurate or not, dozens of films, including movies as diverse as "Gone with the Wind," "Cabaret" and most recently "La Nuit de Varennes," have sought to document these moments, sometimes for memory...
Lesley Ann Warren ages 38 years in six hours in the upcoming NBC-TV epic Beulah Land, about ante-and post-bellum days on a Savannah, Ga., plantation. For good ole boys, the best scenes are ante. Prewar Warren is a demure but determined plantation mistress arching through Georgia with much of her Mason-Dixon lines swelling out of Deep South decolletage. Beulah Land was actually filmed in Natchez, Miss., where plantations have been preserved and the Southern accent is so pervasive that the Manhattan-raised actress found it easier to slip into y'alls than into cum bersome...