Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Taylor Dance Company, Nureyev has programmed an ambitious mix of diverse styles ranging from demi-pointe to barefoot. Not the least of the challenges are the rapid-fire transformations from Balanchine's neoclassical Apollo to the romantic rustic in Bournonville's pas de deux from the Flower Festival in Genzano and, eventually, into the crazed moor of Limon's The Moor's Pavane...
...What was the "American Beauty Rose" of flower-lower John D. Rockefeller...
...hedge against some cataclysmic disaster such as a devastating war or total economic collapse. The world's champion hoarders are the French, who have learned through bitter experience-two centuries of ruinous wars, revolutions and often drastic currency devaluations-that a few kilos of gold buried in a flower garden are sometimes the only insurance against personal financial disaster. Almost half of the entire 8,900 tons of gold held privately in Europe is in France. Today's French goldbug, says Paris Financial Editor René Sedillot, "is apt to be a peasant or a workingman...
...addition to the usual fainting, helpless white flower of the South, no one who was at the movie could have missed the domineering, castrating, Big Black Mama who floors black men with a single blow, and takes two soldiers out of action simply by throwing herself to the ground on top of them...
Exploitation is at the core of this show. The idea was to cash in on the popularity of the Beatles. Their songs are probably as original and innocently evocative of the flower-child world of the '60s as they ever were, but here they are trampled under the dreck of Tom O'Horgan's grimagination. Just to offer one example, his notion of enhancing a song like When I'm Sixty-Four is to have two doddering floor-to-ceiling puppets paw lewdly at each other. As for plot, he tells a fragmentary tale...