Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree that Harvard's plans represent the best of an undesirable lot. "It that's the way the cookie was going to crumble, this plan probably will cause the least problems," Olive Holmes, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, said. "This project will serve as a buffer and feather out disturbances from Parcel 1b," which will be built at about the same time as University Place, Holmes added...
Soldiers dropping one by one to the ground, doubled over in the agony of death. Men lifting a feather-light ballerina and unexpectedly groaning under the strain. A trio dancing to a mournful Sardinian folk song in the eerie darkness of an eclipsed moon. These are some of the images-tragic, comic, passionate-from the rich choreographic imagination of Jiri Kylian, a poet of many moods who works with movement instead of words...
...America's mania not only for music, but for the gadgetry on which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback book, it has feather-light earphones that transmit sound of concert-hall clarity directly to the brain of the wearer, without bothering anyone near by. As Detroit Audio Salesman Thomas Badoud puts it, "These babies are unreal...
...weeks of rehearsal last fall and a 17-week national tour was his new star: the corps de ballet. Its members are younger, more attractive, tirelessly drilled. On opening night they danced with unity, grace and fervor. Baryshnikov revived one of the gala ballets, Frederick Ashton's feather-light Les Rendezvous, just to show off the corps. He has high hopes for these girls in white tulle and pink ribbons and their cavaliers...
...members of the center are not entirely happy with this new role. "We don't want to be too dependent on the corporations, and we don't want to be too dependent on the government," Goldman says. "Right now we're a red feather in Harvard's cap--and it may be up to them to keep us there...