Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern world in general, "Black and White in Color" functions not only as a broad anti-war and anti-colonialist allegory, but also as a devastating, blackly humorous indictment of early 20th century European--particularly French--culture and politics. Writer-director Jean-Jacques Annaud has an unnerving eye for both the humor and pathos in the situations he portrays, and the result is both entertaining and thought-provoking...
...Gelsey Kirkland, 25, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, that trial has ended successfully. An obvious prospect at eight and a gleam in the eye of George Balanchine at 15, Gelsey (pronounced with a hard g, as in great) has emerged from ballet's long chrysalis stage as the most exciting young ballerina in the Western world...
...most promising students in the School of American Ballet were tapped to join the corps of Balanchine's New York City Ballet, and the hope of catching Mr. B's eye spurred every young dancer on. "You cared more than anything in the world how you were impressing him," says Gelsey. When she was 15, Gelsey danced in a school production of Bournonville's Flower Festival. Dancer Villella was among the many who were impressed: "Already she was capable of making her own comment on the choreography, which usually takes many years to do." She joined Balanchine's company...
Despite the vigilant but not unsympathetic eye of Miss Mona (Carlin Glynn), whom no one would presume to call a madam, the girls feel that this house is cozier than home. But a puritan nemesis stalks them: a local TV Savonarola nicknamed "Watchdog" (Clint Allmon) who is bent on inflaming the Bible thumpers and incriminating the pols till they close down the Chicken Ranch...
This desire for a private existence away from the commercial eye has been shown in his refusal to play for radio and television, and in his declining the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhusan Awards in 1964 and 1968. The awards are the highest distinctions the Indian government pays to Indian artists...