Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward J. King will march in the alumni parade but in a break with tradition, he will not be one of the 20,000 people expected to view the ceremonies. King must testify at congressional hearings in Washington, D.C. later today...
...Woody Allen's Manhattan and Milos Forman's Hair, both of which were screened outside of competition at Cannes. While Apocalypse's Cannes victory will not hurt, it may not be much help to a movie that must be an alltime box-office smash just to break even when it opens at American theaters in August...
...Tippett's newest opera, The Ice Break, has been given its first U.S. performances by the Opera Company of Boston (after a world premiere in 1977 at Covent Garden). Fittingly, the work is a masterly summation-not of conclusions, but of a continuing quest...
...chorus of tripped-out hippies in the words of Jung and Shakespeare; but when they hail the spirit as a savior, he sneers, "You must be joking." No comforting re ceived wisdom for Tippett. Lev's dying wife Nadia recalls from her Russian childhood the sound of ice breaking on the rivers in springtime. As Lev and Yuri achieve a provisional reconciliation, the orchestra sounds the ice-break motif, suggesting a perpetual cycle of division and healing, death and renewal, neither hope less nor entirely hopeful...
...works, his acceptance here lags behind even his late blooming in England. Tippett says he al ways knew it would take him a lifetime to come to artistic fruition. And, he adds, -T was always arrogant enough to know I'd get there in the end." The Ice Break emphatically confirms that...