Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around frequently. As Prince Desire, Beauty shows off a young Argentine performer of enormous promise, Julio Bocca, 20. Handsome, ardent, with a big light jump, he gave dramatic strength to the often thankless part. As the first of the Auroras, Susan Jaffe was able to drop much of her cool languor to give a sprightly performance. For one of the Lilac Fairies, MacMillan dipped into the corps to find Jennet Zerbe, 22, a tall, ample dancer who gave a poignant impression of authority and extreme youth...
...eliminate medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe. Because the Soviets have a vast superiority in short-range weapons, which are sited in East Germany and Czechoslovakia and can hit targets over distances of up to 600 miles, the initial West European reaction to the Soviet statement was decidedly cool. Last week Gorbachev said Moscow was also ready to discuss a cutback in short-range weapons. The offer was obviously made in preparation for this week's visit to Moscow by U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, and President Reagan later praised the Soviets' "new seriousness" on arms control...
...travels. He used part of the money to buy a tripod-mounted 8-by-10 view camera that produces the fine detail essential to the new images he was after. When his pictures from those trips began appearing in photography magazines and exhibits, the most talked about featured a cool view of the relationship between people and nature: a suburban street in California after a flash flood; a runaway elephant that has collapsed near a sheriff's car in Washington State; a herd of beached sperm whales viewed from so far away that a few seem no bigger than commas...
Prick Up Your Ears is a view from outside, cool as Orton's craft. But Ken Russell has always been caged inside the beautiful mad creatures he imagines artists to be. No distance, no irony, no coherence, no prisoners. And no surprise that Russell now turns to Gothic, Stephen Volk's script about the famous night in 1816 that Byron (Gabriel Byrne) spent with his mistress Claire Clairmont (Myriam Cyr), his lover John William Polidori (Timothy Spall), his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley (Julian Sands) and Shelley's wife-to-be Mary Godwin (Natasha Richardson). From that spectral evening emerged Mary...
...topic ("On Style," "On System," "On Race," etc.), Morris stages an uncritical celebration: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia gets six paragraphs, the city's restaurants get seven, and "Smelly" Kelly, who sniffed out gas leaks along the IND subway tracks, gets one. Morris, whose customary voice is that of cool detachment, allows a gee-whiz tone to mar the text: "Where else, in 1945, could you have your photograph taken by an unmanned machine (the Photomaton), or go to a theatre on the fiftieth floor of a skyscraper (the Chanin Building), or for that matter get an electric shock just from...