Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballet recalls Robbins' Interplay (1945) in its brash colloquialism, and In G Major (1975) in its formal structure. (And why not? Gershwin's concerto was one of the models for Ravel's Concerto in G, on which the ballet In G Major is set.) But if the Gershwin concerto is not a pro found work, it is still joyous jazz-age jeu d 'esprit that transcends its source - bringing honor to both George Gershwin and Jerome Robbins...
...Armenian and Middle Eastern elements. The second movement has long drones, eloquent turns. It approaches the inspired, improvised style of Arab and Indian performers. The infustion of folk elements won it the Stalin Prize (now called the State Prize) in 1941; but the continued development of Khachaturian's almost brash individuality caused him to be censured, along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich (Khachaturian's teacher...
That the Phoenix is very different now is undeniable, and not its fault. When it was gusty and brash--and when the writing went right to the edge, and often, even usually, a long way over--it's because Harvard Square was the same way. The Square was the center of academic hippieness, and along with a few other campuses one of the most politicized places on earth. No one wore shoes; everyone wore buttons. Hawkers sold the Phoenix at every street corner, and to every driver who had the misfortune to hit a red light. There was a community...
From the beginning of the tournament, fans and promoters alike had been drooling over the prospects of a Khan-Desaulniers final. Seven of the last 12 WPSA tournament finals have pitted Khan, eternal champion cum showman, and Desaulniers, brash challenger become champion, against each other...
...murderously overblown T.V. game show that climaxes in the Astrodome with the contestant, dressed as a gladiator, getting either the girl of his dreams and $12 million or a man-eating tiger ("flown in by Air India") and certain death. It's set in the office of the brash young producer, who faces, in turn, a huge black tiger-tamer in safari costume; the awkwardly toupeed M.C. rehearsing the moment when he's supposed to crack the pressure of the event; the "lady"--an actress whom the contestant loved from afar when she lived near...