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...sustain an interest independent of the central pair; they prove that both the quality and spirit of the dance extend to the whole cast. Of particular note was Daniel Meja as the mischievous jester, who often upstaged the principal dancers with his tendon-defying tours jester and boyant personality...

Author: By Edith A. Replogie, | Title: Swan Lake Keeps Neck In | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...joke, ultimately, was on Princeton. Fraiberg's win cemented Harvard's victory in the match. Jim Masland defeated Princeton's flam-boyant junior Ron Rubin to provide the final count...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Racquetmen Swat Orange And Black | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...LATE, RUSSELL has grown steadily more obsessed with madness and artistic alienation and more self-indulgent in his exploitation of the crude, the excessive and flam-boyant. To this point, his chief forte as a director has been his handling of theatrical effect. "Women in Love" was audacious and over-ripe in imagery, and over-fancy in cinematography--lavish in caricature and lacking in precise meaning. Lawrence's form had been tortured into the shape of Russell's own Gothic sex fancies. And it made as offensive, though visually awesome, film. With "The Music Lovers," a biography of Peter Tchak...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: The Savage Messiah | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

...debut of Uta Hagen, a demigoddess of Broadway (she starred in the original productions of both The Country Girl and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and an acting teacher of special renown. It is difficult to fathom her reputation judging from her work here. She is flam boyant to the point of grotesquery, as is Miss Muldaur. But the Udvarnoky boys are appallingly convincing as the fey twins. Mulligan's special talent for directing children (Up the Down Stair case, To Kill a Mockingbird) is again splendidly in evidence here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...subject of the play, Robert Jordan has less to work with. But if the author has given him little personality, Jordan has enough and to spare of his own. He takes the part in his rumpled, boyish manner, and his quiet superbness goes beautifully with Miss Wylie's flam-boyant brilliance...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: I Am A Camera | 5/8/1958 | See Source »

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