Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filtering out of the White House have it, President Nixon "flatly rejected" a Whitehead-drafted bill that would have put federal support of public TV on a five-year basis and increased it from $60 million a year as of July 1 to $100 million by 1980. In a fit of pique at the proposal, Nixon left word as he set off for the Middle East that he wanted to cut rather than raise PBS funding and, above all, keep it on the short leash of year-to-year financing...
...White collection includes a superb variety of masks, from cumbrous affairs that need an athlete to lift them to a wooden Ogoni mask from Nigeria, with its curving protrusion of lips like a bird's beak, too small to fit a human head. Thompson has included films showing how these personifications of spirit and moral forces are used in communal dances: Gaa Wree-Wre, for instance, the Dan personification of "ideal justice," with its white-rimmed eyes, worn in a dance characterized by ponderous walking and sitting...
...cases of discrimination in the service asserts: "If you're a black, you can't be yourself and get hired. Whites want to see if you're a good boy first. You have to prove you are not one of the troublemakers, but a black who fits in-and even that doesn't mean they will let you fit...
There are a number of other interesting figures: arrogant professors with tenured status in this obscure academic grove, a family of backwoods sadists who rent their muscles to various malefactors, a parole officer (Susan Clark) whose sexiness doesn't quite fit her job category, a good-ole-boy campus cop (Cameron Mitchell) who is a lot shrewder than he acts. Together they almost manage to create a memorable, if not exactly original portrait of petty pretense and ambition in a small town...
...intense minutes, the dancers flit and fit around and into each other like a set of oiled and animated cork screws inspired by the Kama Sutra. Al though the form is that of classical dance, the positions are not. They are an exploration of every inch of space on the stage and around the dancers themselves. Haydée oozes elegantly across the floor on her bottom like a geometric snake, slithering effortlessly upward, feet first and legs spread, over Cragun's waiting shoulders. Tetley amazingly seems to have taught his dancers how to bow their hips into trompe...