Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seduction scene made hilarious by Tammy Grimes. This is madness, as Moliere knew. As he also must have known, it is a disturbing, distorting mirror image of Christian divestiture - giving away all worldly goods, cutting one's closest human ties to achieve a holier state of grace...
...York City Ballet is essentially the vehicle for the colossal creativity of George Balanchine, while American Ballet Theatre prides itself on its eclecticism. Yet the enclosed worlds of the two companies have far more similarities than differences. A ballet audience sees an art of grace and discipline and complexity, but it is the strength of both these books to illuminate the extraordinary difficulty of the life behind...
About half of U.S. military assistance to Israel is also a giveaway-the sole exception to a 1973 law forbidding outright military gifts to other countries. On loans for hardware, Israel often receives a ten-year grace period before repayments begin rather than the customary eight. Israel usually gets the very latest U.S. weapons-sometimes even before American servicemen have been issued all of theirs...
...dull, if its collection of photo-journalistic essays did not purport to be art. First of all, as in every issue, there are full-page photographs of children of the famous. This month Elizabeth Taylor's 16-year-old daughter Maria Burton and 22-year-old son Christopher Wilding grace pages six and seven. They were photographed by Firooz Zahedi, with whom young Christopher plans to open a photography studio soon in New York. Both of Taylor's children are good-looking, both seem deliberately posed to provoke comparison with Beautiful Mama, yet neither has much sparkle. While this...
...seems to have enjoyed himself. There was a lunch in New York with the Empress of Iran where he was somewhat disturbed by a University of Wisconsin school newspaper reporter screaming "Liar!" when the woman spoke, but he was reassured by her screne highness's "sincerity and grace under pressure" as the unfortunate heckler was dragged away by Iranian security guards...