Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mood of weightlessness and airiness suggested by Glazunov's pastel-colored music. Raymonda's feather-light leaps and soaring turns keep the heroine airborne for the better part of the performance. Raymonda is among the most difficult roles in Russian ballet, and it was rendered with elegance, grace and precision in two successive New York performances by Irina Kolpakova and Kaleria Fedicheva. Jean de Brienne, portrayed in both performances by Vladilen Semenov, Kolpakova's real-life husband, spends most of the time as Raymonda's elevator...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Formerly Monday Night at the Movies; first picture of the new season is To Catch a Thief, that Hitchcock snitch switch in which Cat Burglar Gary Grant gets caught by Mouse Grace Kelly...
...Napoleon's addled brothers got the notion that they were supposed to rule over their various subjects rather than act as emissaries for the Emperor. "If I made one of my brothers a king," said Napoleon bitterly at St. Helena, "he imagined that he was king by the grace...
...elevated Mary to the queen of heaven, born free of sin and assumed bodily into heaven. Marian "maximalists" even yearn for the day when a Pope will promulgate new dogmas that in union with her son she is redemptress of the human race and mediatrix of God's grace to men. For centuries, Protestants have reacted by condemning Catholic "Mariolatry" as paganism and ignoring the Virgin as much as they decently could...
...first ax made by the first caveman may have been purely and unesthetically functional. The second probably made some attempt at cleaner line or tidier thong. Since then, artists have gone ever more deeply into producing functional objects of greater grace, of design that encourages use. At the 13th Triennale of industrial design, now on in Milan, designers from all over the world are showing that they can offer mass-made items as commonplace as axes yet beautiful enough to be passed on as heirlooms...