Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MODERN DANCE companies are interesting because they need not stick to any formal rules or balletic norms; they have free reign with creativity. Sometimes this freedom simply leads to failure in overly amorphous, experimental works. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the country's leading modern dance companies...
One event was not only made for TV but marketed over ABC for the tidy sum of $2.2 million, about a fifth of the Inaugural bash's entire cost. Saturday evening's gala for the President, featuring longtime Reagan Pal Frank Sinatra as master of ceremonies, was broadcast in edited...
Animalen, however, was not the best choice to inaugurate the Ordway operatically, even though it reflects both the region's Scandinavian ethnic background and the Minnesota Opera's long-standing commitment to new works. More a politically pacifist, musically jejune cabaret than an opera, it concerns a convention of animals...
At the Democratic Convention in San Francisco last summer, John Zaccaro stood proudly beside his wife Geraldine Ferraro, first woman ever nominated by a major party to run for U.S. Vice President. Privately, too, he was doing well; the couple had a net worth of about $4 million, stemming largely...
After his record-setting $16.3 million, nouveau-riche extravaganza in 1981, the President had raised the possibility of a simple swearing-in ceremony this time, without any of the surrounding hoopla. But Republican Party politicos convinced him otherwise. "We knew we couldn't just have a swearing-in," says Ronald...