Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole range of action to her pioneering. More important, Martha Graham incorporated that vocabulary of movement into a series of dances that leave an audience both stunned and baffled, touched and terrified by the power of motion to create a mirror of the human psyche. Says Teacher-Choreographer Jeff Duncan: "Graham's meaning to today's dancer is that she gave him an awareness of the power and mystery that lies in the human body...
...youth was fin de siècle; her philosophy was fin du monde. She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art. In answer to the question, "What gods has mankind worshipped?" Dancer Isadora Duncan once replied: "Dionysus - yesterday. Christ - today. After tomorrow, Bacchus at last!" In short she was the quintessential bohemian, the ideal subject for a screen biography. The Loves of Isadora supplies the ideal object: Vanessa Redgrave, whose enactment of Duncan carries with it an exquisite sensitivity and a formidable intelligence...
...Duncan's first love affair was with Stage Designer Gordon Craig, whose electric presence is dimmed in the film to about 40 watts by James Fox. Her most celebrated amour was Paris Singer (Jason Robards), the sewing-machine heir. Singer's idea of a bauble was a ten-diamond pendant; Robards' idea of acting is to bark his love scenes tersely, as if ordering a gross of No. 11 needles. Isadora had a child by each of her lovers; both children died in an absurd and macabre automobile accident in France. From then...
...comedy (which flopped a few season ago on Broadway) in a new and fine production directed by Alan Arkin. It's a disturbing and wildly funny work about snipers, obscene phone calls, air pollution, masturbation, hippie religion, and a photographer who takes pictures of shit--among other things. Andrew Duncan and Linda Lavin have just left the cast, but Vincent Gardenia and the stunning Elizabeth Wilson are among those who remain. At the CIRCLE-IN-THE-SQUARE, 159 Bleeker...
...pelt, flippers and blubber with swift strokes of a razor-sharp knife. The process commences at dawn, continues until dark and turns the once pristine ice into an ugly palette of dirtied snow, crimson blood sprays and grotesquely skinned carcasses. Watching this month's carnage TIME Correspondent Dick Duncan concluded: "Somehow in the savagely beautiful surroundings of the ice pack shimmering in the sun, the industrialized slaughter of 50,000 helpless and incredibly cuddly young animals seemed not so much cruel or unwise but simply outrageously inappropriate...