Word: expectance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect stuff like that," he added. "It's part of the Ivy League tradition...
Worse, the actual dancing is largely incidental to both story and spectacle. Like the ballet interludes in a 19th-century opera, dance merely embroiders diverting decorations. Dancers dance only when one would expect the characters to do so--Cinderella daydreaming with her broomstick, or the guests waltzing at the royal ball--and the content of the movement is a trite and anonymous classical pattern. Cunningham's choreographic vocabulary is limited, ignoring both the music (a beguiling Prokofiev score) and any place of space outside the lateral extension of center stage...
...scientific paper is usually not in print until from six months to a year after research is completed. Says Dr. Albert Decker of the New York Fertility Research Foundation, which is going ahead with its plans to present Steptoe with an award on Dec. 1: "You can't expect him to publish the minute it's over with...
First, You Cry is not, as one might expect, Mary Richards Gets Cancer. Rather than fall back on her considerable resources of charm, Mary plays Rollin as a rather cold and strident woman at first. When tragedy strikes, she gradually works shades of anger, maturity and self-doubt into her characterization. As a result, Moore does not just jerk the audience's tears but gives a sense of how one complex life can be redefined by an encounter with death. She also plays some extraordinary scenes, including one where we see Rollin's face as she examines...
Harvard administrators agreed to reach a decision this week on Brustein's proposal. However, Brustein said yesterday he did not expect the Harvard administration to come to a final decision "for some time...