Word: chases
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is An Urban Nutcracker, the latest and most ambitious product of a five-year collaboration between Alison Chase, a founding member of the innovative Pilobolus Dance Theatre, and Bill Wade, director of YARD (Youth at Risk Dancing), a company of teenagers drawn from the student body of the Cleveland School of the Arts. It's hardly the first time The Nutcracker has been updated: Mark Morris' raucous The Hard Nut is set in postmodern suburbia, while Donald Byrd's Harlem Nutcracker uses Duke Ellington's swinging adaptation of Tchaikovsky's score. But An Urban Nutcracker has a special ring...
...cared about him but because it made a good story. While we may convince ourselves that we read the newspaper to become informed members of a democracy, we really read it for stories. I didn't want the Texas Fugitive Guy to re-enter society. I just wanted the chase to drag out into a page-turning action-mystery. Or a romantic tearjerker. Or any of those Blockbuster categories...
...does make good use of the medium," said Joseph P. Chase...
...after school, so she figures she'll get home on her own. Mina has star quality to burn. Turns out she also has a star's attitude. Halfway through, she shouts, "I'm not acting anymore!" and storms off. The Mirror, broken in two, now becomes a little chase movie, with the filmmakers in pursuit of their actress. Could this be a parable of the Iranian female's urge for independence? Ayatullahs, beware: in a decade these Minas will be grown and ready to take over...
...began to rake in a small fortune from outside investments ranging from oil to iron bridges. When he was 33, the rich young man privately lectured himself that his continued pursuit of wealth "must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery." Yet he couldn't abandon the money chase. "Put all your eggs into one basket," Carnegie once advised, "and then watch that basket." For him that basket brimmed with steel. Fiercely competitive, obsessed with innovation and efficiency--he would unhesitatingly scrap a relatively new plant to erect a more modern one--Carnegie imported the Bessemer forced-air steel process...