Word: discordance
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...ever staged: Choreographer Maurice Bejart's Such Sweet Thunder, set to music by Duke Ellington. Originally written for Canada's Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Thunder is a 14-part suite obscurely inspired by a line from A Midsummer Night's Dream: "I never heard so musical a discord, such sweet thunder." Ellington's musical rogue's gallery glimpses of Shakespearean heroes and heroines in turn inspired Choreographer Bejart to paste together a 45-minute dance work that he describes as "part serious, part caricature, part dowdy-like the Bolshoi." It turned out to be a kind...
...near the town of Charrier. Unfortunately, French for baby is bébé, pronounced "B.B.," who, as 45 million Frenchmen know, is Cineminx Brigitte Bardot. In turn, making the coincidence the more monstrous, B.B. is married to highstrung Cinemactor Jacques Charrier. Was Perrier, with gauche humor, hinting of discord in the Charrier family? Brigitte concluded just that, had her lawyers ask the Seine Tribunal to muzzle the ads because they cast doubt on her love for her husband, thus injured "her honor, her happiness and her private life." The tribunal refused, but hinted that the ads were slightly ambiguous...
...first important leader of the left to rally to General de Gaulle 18 months ago, solemnly warned Premier Debré: "When great tasks-the Franco-African community, Algeria, international affairs-require the greatest national unity, you choose at that very moment to introduce the most terrible element of discord. You triumph, but I do not envy...
...Discord...
Thus in a babel of discord, and six months after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work, the $3,000,000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), opened to the public last week. Discord and controversy had marked it since the day it was commissioned 16 years ago. Wright had proposed "one great space on a continuous floor," a gigantic, uncoiling drum of reinforced concrete that swelled outward as it rose, carrying within more than one-quarter mile of continuous ramps sloping upward six stories to a great glass dome...