Word: feld
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Wheeldon's speedy rise to the top is partly due to a nearly complete lack of competition. The top American choreographers, Robbins and Eliot Feld excepted, have mainly preferred modern dance to ballet. Hungry for premieres, classical companies are increasingly turning to modern crossovers like Mark Morris and Twyla Tharp, whose highly personal reworkings of ballet technique are often refreshing but rarely idiomatic. While a few regional ballet masters are doing interesting work, none to date have won much more than local celebrity...
...caused him to remake his life. Eighteen months later, he left the Urban League; friends from those days believe he decided not to die for the cause. In January 1982 he accepted an offer from Robert Strauss, the silky, down-home Democratic kingmaker, to join Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, a firm with one of the biggest practices in Washington...
Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, will discuss the lack of democratic input in decisions on nuclear arms and foreign policy, Joan E. Lancourt, one of the organizers of the event, said yesterday. State Rep. Saundra Graham and Bernard Feld, editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, will also speak...
Comden and Green, who were in the Central Park audience on opening night, know that On the Town is no museum piece. For the 1949 film version, they replaced most of Bernstein's brassy score with more razzmatazzy tunes. But Wolfe has jettisoned Robbins' choreography for dances by Eliot Feld that don't buoy the production; they give it stretch marks. Better to cut these and let the show soar as an all-out musical comedy...
...concerns would also need to be considered. If we chose another name beginning with "H," we could probably save ourselves a couple of bucks. (No new football helmets.) By sticking with a two syllable name we wouldn't risk muddling up the old fight-sings. "Ten thousand men of Feld-stein want victory today!" rolls off the tongue just as easily as the old version...