Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Royal's director and principal choreographer in 1970 after 35 years with the company, he remains active, casting and rehearsing his ballets. "Some of the dancers ask for me specifically," he notes. "They get something from me they don't get from other people." A master of crisp classicism, Ashton cannot read music, but his feeling for it is strong. "My reaction is spontaneous," he says. "Once I've chosen the music for a ballet, I completely inundate myself in it. I listen to nothing else, so that it becomes part of me-I'm drenched...
...slow and painful death without all of this trouble from outsiders. When it comes upon its massacred offspring and nudges their mutilated little bodies in desperate hopes of finding a trace of life, you will no doubt feel more sympathy than when some damsel gets herself burned to a crisp. If only there had been some way of keeping the dragon in front of the camera more, perhaps they could have rewritten the whole story and done it from the bad guy's point of view...
...seemed in decades past. No longer is it primarily an exotic and ballyhooed indulgence of high-gloss entrepreneurs, Hollywood types and high rollers, as it was only three or four years ago-the most conspicuous of consumptions, to be sniffed from the most chic of coffee tables through crisp, rolled-up $100 bills. Today, in part precisely because it is such an emblem of wealth and status, coke is the drug of choice for perhaps millions of solid, conventional and often upwardly mobile citizens-lawyers, businessmen, students, government bureaucrats, politicians, policemen, secretaries, bankers, mechanics, real estate brokers, waitresses. Largely unchecked...
...scene is an 8,000-acre estate in Oxfordshire. Some very upper-class English have assembled to enjoy the hospitality of their host, Sir Randolph Nettleby, and three days of partying and shooting in the crisp fall weather. The month is October and the year is 1913. A novel set in this place and time automatically creates a reserve of ready-made poignancy: the insular, comfortable people of the period had no idea what the guns of August 1914 would bring. But Author Isabel Colegate does not exploit this sentiment. The coming Great War is, naturally, a fact of which...
...Everything We Had employ the techniques of oral history to find the answer. Mark Baker and Al Santoli have skillfully edited and orchestrated their interviews. Nam stretches the form. A crisp, uniform tone suggests that many of the anecdotes may be composites from various sources. None of those interviewed is identified, though a glossary reacquaints us with the language of the war: busting caps for firing a weapon, cherry for inexperience, hooch for shelter, No. 10 for the worst, klick for kilometer, slick for helicopter, Spooky for gunship. Santoli's approach is more traditionally documentary, though both books reveal...