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...largest and ugliest city, is at the same time its most dynamic. Founded in the 15th century by a poetically minded samurai named Do-kan Ota, it wore the name of Edo during its early, bucolic years. Then the populace found its major thrill in watching whales cavort through the clear, blue waters of the bay. But by 1720 Tokyo had attained a population of a million-making it the largest city in the pre-Industrial Revolution world, and whale-watching gave way to more active pursuits. With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Tokyo came into its own. It assumed...
They were some of the strangest creatures ever to cavort upon a stage, those ballerinas in George Balanchine's 1946 ballet, The Four Temperaments. Swaddled with shreds of drapery, bodices bandaged with ribbons, they seemed like cats' playthings, a ragpicker's delight, a macabre masquerade of Martians. Only a slippered leg or two revealed that they were real live dancers, panoplied in fantastic dress by Surrealist Kurt Seligmann. But it was natural that Seligmann would design costumes for diversion. His art always cloaked anatomy in fanciful clothes. In costume design or painting, he could easily subtract...
Shadows create the sense of gloom for the entire film, damping even a victory celebration. Darkness pervades the alleys where gleeful soldiers cavort with Cyprian women. The transition of Othello's mind from conscientious administrator to maddened husband is reflected in the darkening of the weather as the Moor's thoughts plummet...
...much; a bit of fluff here and there. But compared to the buff that Carroll Baker, 32, wore for the first days of screening The Carpetbaggers, her two-piece boa was a positive shroud. By the script, Carroll-as Screen Queen Rita Marlowe-was supposed to cavort on the chandelier until it collapsed from extra weight. All those feathers, no doubt...
More and more of the greater Los Angeles area is going under water every year. There are some 80,000 private pools, and new pool permits are issued at a rate of 12,000 a year. Two out of every nine pool owners in the U.S. live there and cavort in 1,600,000,000 gallons of precious rain water brought in by aqueduct every day. But into every pool of rain water somebody's little life may fall. From 1952 to 1959, 102 people drowned in the backyard. And the present accident rate costs Los Angeles some...