Word: dervishness
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Michael Flatley occupies your dreams. Explore this new interest further with a performance by Dervish, a traditional Irish folk sextet from County Sligo. Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square...
...Side Story" he decided to do himself. Or nearly so; Robbins was teamed with Robert Wise as codirectors. They hated each other (when the duo received the Best Director Oscar jointly that year, neither acknowledged the other in his speech), but the child was beautiful. Russ Tamblyn's a dervish, Natalie Wood's a dream, and that finger-snapping? Gang war -- or Shakespeare, for that matter -- doesn't get any prettier...
...marriage by teaching them that each person must be comfortable with their isolation and live with their ultimate life decisions. Shaw's Mr. Chamberlayne is perhaps the weakest link in the play, if only because his character is so demanding, bearing the brunt of the "Unidentified Guest's" whirling-dervish style of philosophy. But his reactions seem a bit overawed with the grossness of his situation. Ahanna Kalappa '01, on the other hand, plays an utterly confident Lavinia Chamberlayne with masterful posture. She takes advantage of a relatively late entrance by immediately assuming the dignified air of a whimsical aristocrat...
DIED. JOAN WESTON, 62, Roller Derby dervish who wreaked mayhem in the rink from the 1950s to the '70s; of a brain disease; in Hayward, Calif...
ICICLES--SIX FEET LONG, AND AT THEIR TIPS, as bright and sharp as needles--hang from the eaves: wild ice stalactites, dragon's teeth. I peer through them to see the world transformed to abstract whiteout. Little dervish snow tornadoes twirl across the blank. The car is out there somewhere, represented by a subtle bump in the snowfield. The old Jeep truck, a larger beast, is up to its door handles, like a sinking remnant: dinosaur yielding to ice age. The town's behemoth snowplow passes on the road, dome light twirling, and casts aside a frozen doe that...