Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philip Champagne can make points with lights. They flood and ebb with the play's emotions. The costumes, which are contemporary and therefore risk drawing blatant parallels between politics Then and Now, are just suggestive enough. The make-up is masklike, an old cliche of American Greek tragedy--but the Keane eyes and chalk faces are so stark, the scars and gore so real, that this makeup has nothing to do with cliche...
Their confidence was at its lowest ebb at the beginning of this term: the memory of the breakfast subsidy fiasco still rankled. Starting early in February, two months before housing decisions were to be made, girls began having appointments with Mrs. Frederick Bolman, the dean of residence, to ask about apartment living. Many were opposed to a lottery system, which had been used for this year's seniors. They were put off by Mrs. Bolman, who told them that the procedure had not been set up because the administration was busy with admissions meetings for the class...
...Nino and the Ebb Tides...
Balanchine's polished New York City Ballet troupe gave the untitled work its premiere last week at Lincoln Center, and it was the most sumptuous and imaginative ballet in years. Typical of Balanchine, there was no story, but the way he molded the ebb and flow of dancing figures was as riveting as any narrative. Each jewel refracted a side of the Balanchine style; together, they showed a spectrum of radiance...
...would you believe Joe Masteroff, John Kandor, and Fred Ebb? These three are responsible for the book, music, and lyrics to Cabaret, in which Miss Lenya struggles through turgid material of a sort usually left to the likes of Molly Picon...