Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lithe movements and the spasmodic fragility of the upright dancer was maintained throughout the work, as Chin--returned to her animal position--trundled by repeatedly to confound the stubborn choreographic efforts of four brittle dancers in white. Whether the ungainly quartet was carefully composing itself to approximate Victorian garden sculptures, or Chin was swinging her leg in unison with the untied sneaker, the point was made with imagination and vast humor: that the process of making our bodies dance, when neither filtered into theory nor reduced to anemic self-commentary, can be a matter of self-discovery rich with absurdity...
...difficult thing to change eating habits. As the University of Florida's Kelly points out, though, scientists might take a lesson from history. When Louis XVI tried to popularize potatoes in France during the 18th century, the people refused to eat them-until he established a royal potato garden, which the peasants promptly invaded to get at the King's new crop...
When Gregory Shaddy was 18, he left his parents' home in the wealthy Westside section of Wichita, Kans. He had good reason: his father, Vernon, 42, an insurance salesman, often beat Gregory with belts, garden hoses and golf clubs. His mother, Barbara, 37, was also strict and harsh. Some two months after his departure, on the night of July 24, 1975, Gregory returned home-with a knife and an ax. He killed his parents and stuffed their bodies into their bedroom closet. Last week Shaddy was a free man. And soon, maybe, a richer man. Gregory and his brother...
John Haviicek's last game as a Celtic, Boston Garden...
International Week Film--The Garden of the Finzi-Continls, 112 Pendleton East...