Word: grecian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always a very pretty one. The body is the raw material. The body builder labors to release the Platonic ideal of the hunk within. Most Westerners like motion and action in their athletics. Muscle building tends toward stasis, toward posing the body in tableaux, a series of Grecian urns...
...Jeff Rossman. It's no wonder that Menelaus doesn't look too worried about recapturing his wandering wife when the Greeks sit down to plot strategies--he knows that he has only to wait for the next scene change to take her in his arms and whisper sweet Grecian nothings into...
Second only to Albion are P. Brien Lasolino as Thersites, the urchan fool who serves as a go between for the Grecian and Trojan camps, and NIck Lawrence as Pandarus. As written by Shakespeare, Thersites provides the audience with a running commentary cum critique of the main players in the tragedy. Pondering on what it would be like to be Menelaus, Thersites remarks "to be an ass, were nothing, be is both ass and ox; to be an ox, were nothing, he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule a cat, a finch, a toad...
...1980s, from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets...
...1980s, from the debonair Fred Astaire to the all-pro running back Gene Kelly--has immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets...