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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More important, there is growing discontent among the officers of Nasser's army, who understandably resent their role as scapegoats for Israel's victory in June. As long as Nasser could count on the unquestioned admiration of his worshipful populace, no military leader dared lift a finger against him. But the admiration is now in question, the populace is no longer entirely worshipful, and the possibility of a military coup can no longer be dismissed. The fact that there is no visible movement of anti-Nasser officers means little, as Nasser himself well knows. Who, after...
...former students. Rapidly shaping a style all their own, the Pennsylvanians scored a critical hit recently with the world premiere of John Butler's Ceremony, a frank, sexy study of fear and alienation. Even more ambitious is the Harkness Ballet, which now has ten former Jeffrey dancers to count on, at least two soloists (long-haired Lawrence Rhodes and sultry Brunilda Ruiz) of star magnitude, and the staggering total of 20 newly commissioned dances in its repertory. Still another inventive company is the one founded by Mexican-born José Limón, whose choreography-as in The Winged...
...title; in the second, last August, Emile won back the crown with his swarming attack. Now, once again, science and strategy proved superior to strength. Nino's flicking jab kept Emile out of hooking range; a short right followed by a lightning left cross dropped Griffith for a count of six in the ninth round; and the judges' vote was unanimous for Benvenuti, who left the ring wreathed with a smile and wrapped in an Italian flag...
...reach to the massive Mathis, who had beaten him twice as an amateur, the ex-slaughterhouse laborer battered Buster with hooks to the head and belted him right through the ropes with a tremendous left in the eleventh round. Mathis staggered to his feet at the count of six, but the referee stopped the fight...
Many of the actors are simply adequate. All of them achieve reasonably well-defined characterizations; none of them goes any farther than that. The same is true of the Count, Brian McGunigle, and his family--Ken Hurwitz, Barbara Menaker, Sharone Sandifer, and Steven Sylvester--and of the other inhabitants of the servants' quarters--Alberta Handelman, Robert Rosenheck, Tom Geoghegan, John Hiatt, and Nathan Taylor...