Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emotional restraint of the program was most frustratingly evident in "El Lobo", choreographed by Dorothy Hershkowitz, a piece which attempted to express confining relationships between men and women. The dance kept slipping into formalized movement, sometimes a good parody of sleazy courtship rituals, but more often irrelevant to what was being expressed. "Cambridge Dances", choreographed by Bill Evans, and "Journeys", by Martha Armstrong Gray, were more fluid than the other works, but too abstract. At times, in both of these dances, Gray would suddenly shiver and limp, but even this never gave more than ripples to an overly calm surface...
...sergeant stationed in Bad Nauheim, Germany, and she was 14, the daughter of an Air Force captain. Now, at 28, the former Mrs. Presley, Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, decided to break the silence that surrounded her strangely sequestered marriage with the multimillionaire singer. For four years of their seven-year courtship, Priscilla lived with Elvis' father and stepmother in Memphis, apparently being groomed for marriage. Elvis bought cars for her -"A little red Corvair, then a Chevrolet, a Toronado, an Eldorado and then the Mercedes"-and chauffeured her in a Lincoln Continental with its own bar (soft drinks only...
...Trade. Brezhnev's whirl wind courtship of Bonn had a plain purpose. He was after a massive influx of West German capital and technological assistance into the Soviet economy But Bonn was taken aback by the Soviet leader's unrealistic economic expecta tions and his tendency to wave away German political questions in order to dwell on industrial projects. German leaders said Brezhnev seemed to have little awareness of West Germany's role and economic obligations in the EEC. After a long session with West German businessmen, in which Brezhnev spoke lengthily about the opportunities for huge...
...ripples with her memoirs of life with papa; and William Wesley Peters, 60, chief architect of the Wright Foundation and former husband of Frank Lloyd Wright's late daughter Svetlana; after three years of marriage, one child; in Phoenix, Ariz. Svetlana Alliluyeva married Peters after a three-week courtship, then left him because of her objections to life in the architecture community, Taliesin West...
Miss Fisher is congenitally clumsy, addled despite her sternest efforts at control, and at least a full generation older than Walter. He is nevertheless severely smitten. The movie is at its quiet best, funny and affectionate, as it chronicles their unlikely courtship. Walter woos Miss Fisher by rushing her, trying to blow her off her unsteady feet with little gusts of adolescent energy. They nearly do not get together. Miss Fisher, despairing of herself and of some mysterious, occasionally violent speech impediment, attempts suicide, but is revived by the eager Walter, who finds himself bleating all manner of hortatory clich...