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...need not retire just yet. His charisma, his style, his sex appeal are still irresistible; he is still very much the enfant terrible of dance. And since his strong suit, even in his heyday, was never technical perfection--his particular brand of excellence has always involved character over precision--he remains a dancer to be seen and remembered and discussed...
...there is one international musical figure who can truly be described as protean, it is Pierre Boulez. The former enfant terrible of French composers, who combines a brilliant mathematical mind with an expert musical ear, Boulez has been the chief theoretician of the postwar serialist movement. During his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1977, he introduced audiences to unfamiliar repertory by familiar composers like Liszt, and startled them with lucid, penetrating readings of standards like Debussy's La Mer. Under his baton the orchestra reached a level of technical precision that...
Half an hour late, Poet Anne Waldman rises to introduce the aging enfant terrible, now 55. She arouses the crowd to nostalgia for dissent with the code language of the antiEstablishment. She describes Ginsberg as a product of "postwar materialist paranoid doldrums." She proclaims, to the audience's laughter, that Howl was "written while Allen was living on unemployment compensation...
Since he was elected just seven weeks ago, he has become the aging enfant terrible of European politics, the cause of what has become known in the chanceries of the European Community as "the Greek problem." Last week Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 62, head of the first Socialist government in Greek postwar history, was on his best behavior for a change at the ten-nation E.C. summit meeting in London. Still, as members agreed to approve European participation in the Sinai peace-keeping force, Papandreou made some statements that were bound to anger the Israelis. Declaring that Greece...
...middle-aging enfant terrible from off-Broadway has given the Guthrie's new season its "conversation piece." Director Richard Foreman is a bit of a prankster, but he possesses a painter's eye for shaping scenes and a formidable arsenal of theatricality. He explodes one of his surprises at the very start of this revival. A thunderclap of organ music blasts through the house, sounding as though the seraphic tones of Bach had been mangled in some dungeon of the damned...