Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elizabeth Garren first, splaying her arms with a measured deadpan delivery; then Wendy Perron, pouting over her twisted hands as she raises them overhead, leaving them crunched over her phooey expression; Trisha Brown next, hunching up her shoulders as if a little too innocent and awkward for such sensual display; and then small Mona Sulzman, sweeping her arms to the side then high, pulling herself up to the height of the others; lastly, Lisa Kraus, like a ship's figurehead with strongly-arched back and triumphant gaze...
...restricting the use of English. A draconian law known as Bill 101, approved by the legislative assembly last August, makes French the only "official" language in Quebec.* Under its terms, all business with the provincial government must be conducted in French. All professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, must display "appropriate" fluency in order to practice in Quebec. Corporations will be monitored by a government board to ensure that French becomes the "language of work." To pacify English-speaking Big Business, the Quebec government has promised to tailor exceptions for some 40 national and international corporate head offices located...
...presentation took place in the penthouse of Hilles, where samples of Chinmoy's artwork are on display. The books were stacked in a single column and covered by a white veil, which one of Chinmoy's disciples removed as the Yogi spoke...
...blasphemy, for instance, and its passionate anticlericalism were authentically shocking within France's Catholic tradition, but resemble a charade when plucked from that context. But the freeing of imagination by the surrealists remains a tremendous achievement. Be yond the froth - the ideological absurdities, the rampant narcissism, the window display and chic decor - surrealism remains one of the century's noblest proposals of liberty...
...been two premieres in two weeks: Ballo della Regina, to dance music from Verdi's Don Carlos, and Kammermusik No. 2, composed by Paul Hindemith in 1924. The works are not masterpieces, but they show a couple of sides of Balanchine's genius: Kammermusik is a sophisticated display of how motion can illustrate music. Ballo is a bravura piece for his newest virtuoso, Merrill Ashley...