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...studded crowd of artists and politicians who gathered in Washington last week would have flattered any visiting head of state. But the guests, including the President and Nancy Reagan, were paying tribute to national leaders of the arts, not politics. The sixth annual Kennedy Center honorees for lifetime achievement-Dancer-Choreographer Katherine Dunham, 73, Director Elia Kazan, 74, Singer Frank Sinatra, 68, Actor Jimmy Stewart, 75, and Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, 87-were presented with the rainbow-ribboned medals during a gala black-tie reception and special performance. Said Sinatra: "I'm way up in the air. This...
Worse was to follow. A dancer appeared and glided through the sanctuary; then came a clown, carrying balloons, who began skipping around the coffin chanting, "Today my brother and sister are dancing together in heaven." The mother, already deeply offended and in tears, only later realized that the clown's voice was that of her own daughter. After the daughter tied the balloons to the coffin, pallbearers in work shirts carried the coffin to the dead man's Chevrolet pickup truck...
...from the magic and to judge it with the cold rationality that Kennedy tried to bring to bear upon his world? Or is the myth, the sense of hope and the lift he gave thereby, a central accomplishment of his presidency? W.B. Yeats wrote, "How can we know the dancer from the dance...
...like MacNeil and Lehrer, and the film makes Lyndon Johnson (Donald Moffat) look like Laurel or Hardy, take your pick. There he is in the back of his limousine, slamming his first together and muttering "darned housewife" when Annie Glenn refuses to see him: later he leeringly introduces fan-dancer Sally Rand; and during a film presentation with Eisenhower, Johnson sees the face of a Russian scientist and drawls. "Get that moron off of there," with the most extended moron this side of Gomer Pyle. Moffat's characterization, or rather caricature, elicits a laugh or two, but The Right Stuff...
Working only with the body and emotions, the 32 dancers move in groups as the music reaches crescendoes and in pairs as it softens. In large numbers the effect is both exuberant and mesmerizing as dancers leap and turn and stretch back and forth with technical precision. The piece could, in fact, probably survive with weaker technique, since the overall effect makes it difficult to concentrate on single movements. But the composition comes closer to perfection because of the clean, sharp and careful placement of each dancer...