Word: gaucho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes not even pregnant. But then, explains Designer Basha Johnson, 22, "I don't design for the pregnant woman. I design for myself." Miss Johnson's waistline measures a reedy 24 inches. Nonetheless, her clothes will accommodate an extra foot or more of girth. There are gaucho pants and bathing suits ($21), jumpsuits, dirndl dresses ($42) and hot pants ($10), all with expandable waists. Actress Mia Farrow, prior to twins, picked up the Victorian midi, Mrs. Dustin Hoffman bought the fringed suede mini, and Singer Diana Ross, Supremely pregnant, has toted home $700 worth of Madonnas...
...Borges marveled at the deeds of the footloose gaucho. His style easily accommodates to this new setting: before, it was teasing and allusive; now it becomes as sharp as the knives brandished by the outlaws. These tales, moreover, have been smoothly turned into English by Borges and his collaborator, Norman Thomas di Giovanni, an American translator who now lives with the Borges family in Buenos Aires...
...knives divide men by killing them, they also forge a community of courage. A man's faith in his strength is "no mere form of vanity but an awareness that God can be found in any man." In The Challenge, one gaucho slashes another, then refrains from the fatal thrust. "I'm letting you live," he tells his antagonist, "so you'll come back looking for me again." Life cannot be lived without the dignity of danger...
...there is salvation in Borges, it is in memory that overcomes the isolation of blindness, that links Borges with Homer or a gaucho-or with the reader...
...Russia, with a drunken boyar, a devil wielding a pitchfork and a troupe of gymnastic, gnomic clowns. The other two novelties are internationally flavored departures from Moiseyev's customary exploration of the Russian heritage. Sicilian Tarantella is a festive evocation of Italy's traditional folk dance, while Gaucho is a foot-stomping challenge match for three male soloists, dressed like Argentine cowboys on parade. The Latin rhythms have the right ring, but Moiseyev's cowboys look like Cossacks in disguise, and his Sicilian peasants might just as easily be performing a traditional specialty of Turkestan...