Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over at the Loeb dance studio, Indrani, an instructor of Hindu dance, leads her students in an entirely different form of dance. India has sponsored her summer trips for three years. In a vibrant red sari, her jet black hair coiled behind her head, and her black eyes sparkling, she stands before a class, teaching the fundamentals of her technique. With colorful leotards, jingling anklet bells and intent expressions, the students respond with amazing results...
Gary Ramus, owner of Roller Power, said yesterday his business has been booming since he opened five weeks ago. He said he had enjoyed skating last year in California so much he decided to open a store in Massachusetts: "Boston and Cambridge were ready for something new, a new form of exercise, a new way of getting high." He added that while the mechanics of roller wheels and bearings are related to those of skateboards, the sport itself is completely different. Skateboarding appeals more to young daredevils, but everyone can enjoy rollerskating. Since most people skate as children, they...
...trials and tribulations of the suburban theatergoer form the basis of one of the skits: the quest for the babysitter, the snarl of traffic, parking traumas, reservations that have evaporated, and the final securing of seats in an abysmal location. Each sequence is set to some theater tune; singing "I can't believe these seats" to the melody of I Could Have Danced All Night doubles...
That squeamishness only intensified during the Victorian era, blighting the whole form for the next 120 years. "In every picture there should be shade as well as light," said Boswell. The Victorians, however, wanted, or claimed they wanted, to hear only good about their heroes. The historian Thomas Carlyle was an exception; he instructed his own biographer, James Anthony Froude, to put down the truth about him. But when he died and Froude did just that, telling how sour, self-centered and occasionally violent the great man really was, half of England denounced Froude as a scoundrel and a traitor...
...wrote Bernard De Voto, "biography seemed to be no more than a high-spirited game of yanking out shirttails and setting fire to them." That game is over. In the past generation the best biographers have righted the balance, creating what approaches a fresh and vigorous art form...