Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senators showed little interest in Greber's heavily accented notions, never asked a question. Next fall, when the full Greber report will be ready, they would probably put some of the questions Ottawans are already asking: 1) how much will it cost? 2) how will it stand up to an atom bomb...
...downs a boxer must stay down for a count of eight. Illinois recently announced that all boxers must take a rigid medical exam (including skull X ray) once a month and before each fight. (Jackie Darthard, it turned out, had complained of "an awful headache" after a fight last fall.) Wisconsin, too, had tightened its rules...
...Choreographer De Mille's first all-out try at murder. She had long been fascinated by the story of Lizzie Borden, the Fall River (Mass.) spinster who was tried in the '90s for the ax murder of her father and stepmother. Last year ("because I was feeling gloomy and murderous") she started building a ballet to show in Freudian terms how a young girl might get worked up to murder. One difference: her heroine commits the murders onstage and hangs; Lizzie Borden was acquitted...
...style and feeling, Fall River Legend reminded some balletomanes of Antony Tudor's somber Pillar of Fire. But it had plenty of De Mille trademarks too: miming, scurrying, fast-paced freshness...
...year, finally regained her sight). Alicia, the best of the younger classical dancers, had seldom done modern dance before. But, right after dancing the queen in Swan Lake, she returned to the stage as Lizzie, to sub for ailing Nora Kaye. Alicia, as much as Agnes, made Fall River Legend an opening-night success...