Word: gambol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space with his mobiles, sometimes in a bear hug, sometimes in a fencer's riposte. He became known as the man who made sculpture move. Actually, the Russian constructivists and Dadaist Marcel Duchamp did it years before him, but no one has ever made cubic feet dance and gambol as has Calder. His work is the apotheosis of open form: space is his circus, all three rings, all three dimensions...
...skepticism. The 1959 announcement of the world's biggest world's fair was greeted with a who-needs-it attitude by many of the nation's best-heeled potential exhibitors. The Paris-based International Bureau of Expositions huffily refused to recognize Moses' $500 million gambol in the meadow as a proper world's fair on the grounds (among other reasons) that there can be only one world's fair per country per decade, and Seattle was it. But the big corporations came round, and some nations skirted the bureau code by allowing private trade...
...ESTABLISHMENT. The Establishment company, a hip group of anti-p.r. men, demolish sacrosanct images and egos with laughing precision, and gambol satirically on what is nearly In or almost...
...Philharmonic Hall when the Paul Taylor Dance Company made its debut there last week before a near capacity house. Taylor and his troupe set out to be cozily charming rather than abstractly far-out. The result was atypical Taylor, an airy dance frolic as pleasantly unpretentious as a gambol on the green...
...stagehands. All are female, and all gambol across the stage in bikinis and tights, pushing gaily colored panels before them. It's more interesting than looking at a curtain...