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Phoebe Snow (Shelter). "Sometimes these hands get so clumsy that I drop things and people laugh. Sometimes these hands seem so graceful I can see them signin' autographs." Reality and fantasy blend nicely in this graceful, never clumsy debut album. Phoebe's original lyrics are as plain as morning bread, but her alto voice is jazzy. Jazz Notables Teddy Wil son (piano) and Zoot Sims (saxophone) join the diversified goings...
...early imitations of Rubens (like Henri IV Conferring the Regency on Marie de' Medici) are much to the fore in this show, was able in maturity to go back to his great prototype and produce such majestically sensual works as Turkish Women Bathing (1854), an outdoor seraglio, a blend of Venus garden and fete champetre. In the event, it was Rubens who saved classical mythology for the romantics by rescuing it from its scholarly imbrications. By the same token, he rescued historical allegory by giving it the unique straightforwardness, the solidity and dazzle that his followers could only aspire...
What makes Pilobolus more engaging than other well-trained, well-rehearsed troupes is their unique approach to dance that integrates elements of gymnastics, acrobatics, mime and acting. The ability to blend and unravel their bodies in controlled and interesting ways adds a special energy to their movements, most evident when the entire group dances. Moreover, Pilobolous shows how much the human form can communicate both thematically and visually without complicated sets, elaborate costumes or even words...
...Oval Office itself has been cleansed of the vivid blues and golds of the Nixon era. It is subdued now, a blend of soft green, rust and beige. It is not hard to see how the bright Nixon colors were inspired by the Southwestern states, while those in the Ford office are more the muted tones of the Great Lakes states where the colors shift with the seasons...
they spring, And undistinguish'd blend the flying ring...