Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first among them. Why? The answer is surprising. "Doing Ernestine is really a very sexual experience. I just squeeze myself very tight from the face down. The bottom line with Ernestine is that she's a very sensual person," says Lily, who herself moves with the free, confident grace of a dancer. "She's a woman who knows she has a very appealing body and likes to show...
...When the American Bible Society issued its homespun Good News Bible translation (TIME, Dec. 6), some critics responded in sorrow. Championing the King James Version, the Philadelphia Inquirer stated that "Good News is bad news, in terms of poetry, of grace, of charm and thus of beauty." Many readers apparently disagree. In three months the new version has sold 1.5 million copies...
...about a distressed California woman. Charlotte Douglas is the victim of a romantic idealism so hermetic that self-knowledge is impossible. The currents of revolution and privilege scarcely ruffle her hair. Incapable of reflection, Charlotte moves, therefore she is. This unexamined life is filtered through the tough mind of Grace Strasser-Mendana, Colorado-born widow of a Boca Grande plutocrat...
Still, this play's saving grace is Berger's witty, terse dialogue. One masterful confrontation occurs in Celeste's apartment, when she tries to seduce Leo (or rather, to encourage him to seduce her) with the help of wine and her pocket Freud. Berger shows the calculations and machinations of his characters. If Leo acts like a sexual automaton (he places his hand on Celeste's leg; she asks sharply, "What is that?"), Celeste reacts coldly with banal psychology in her analysis of Leo's childhood. Employing a more experimental approach, Berger tries his hand at Joyce an stream...
...leave this exhibition struck by a mixture of primitivism and sophistication. These sculptures have all the energy of children's art, excited without a trace of self-doubt or self-consciousness. And they have also that elegance and grace that is supposed to compensate an adult for losing that initial confidence. Where Mildred Thompson shows her art is chiefly in this combination of what others would call opposites into a spare, yet memorable, artistic statement...