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Word: gracing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next Thursday the Paul Winter Consort will grace the Berklee Performance Center, and then next Saturday the Pousett Dart Band will go for the bullseye at the Orpheum...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: We Warrened You | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...Gioconda half-smile, all the better to be seen clearly from the third balcony. And those long arms and legs: Should they not be attached to a bigger body? In motion, Gelsey's torso seems to lose what little substance it has. Mass is translated into a continuum of grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: U.S. Ballet Soars | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Kevin McKenzie, 24. Soloist, Jeffrey Ballet. Unlike most young male dancers, the tall (6 ft. 1 in.), lanky McKenzie started out with a fluid, adagio style, which usually comes only after long experience. His languid grace reflects an easygoing personality: "If dancing becomes so serious that it can make or break my psyche, then it's no more fun." He literally stumbled into ballet. Coaxed by a third-grade classmate into a tap class, he found he could not keep his balance; his father, a Vermont meat-packing company owner, suggested that he try ballet as a remedy. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Others at the Turning Point | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Four-man Kevin Shaw racked up his sixth straight victory when he cruised past Doug Walbridge 4-and-3, while Greg Kirsch resorted to a 5-3 tiebreaker win to administer the coup de grace to Mark Jeffrey at five...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Netmen Nail Big Green, 6-3, Sending League Mark to 4-0 | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

Mercy should grace any description of the performers, but it is difficult to be charitable while they are stabbing Shakespeare to death. George Rose is comfortable in Caesar's tunic, yet when he dies in the Forum, the event carries no more dramatic gravity than if Robert Morley were to be silenced midway in a British Airways commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Et Tu, Dunlop! | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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