Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...model of every artist's dream. "Imagine," wrote French Dramatist Henri Lavedan, "a woman with a body that suggests the perfection of Greek sculpture." "An antique marble," marveled Sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. "The Parthenon itself!" exclaimed Critic Carl van Vechten. She was America's first great dancer, Isadora Duncan...
...arts that first instructed Isadora in the dance. Fresh off a cattle boat from New York in 1899, she and her brother haunted the Louvre, particularly its Greek sculpture collection, where Isadora sought models for her movements. Once they were found, she cast off the traditional ballet corset and slippers, danced barefoot in a transparent Greek tunic to a storm of mixed scandal and approval. By the time she died at the age of 49 in 1927, when her long red shawl caught in the wheel of a sports car and strangled her, she had ushered in the whole modern...
...John Leyton) who idolizes him. He persuades Leyton to pay half the rent on a seedy flat, uses it to enjoy Leyton's girl friend (Jennifer Hilary) and finally seduces Leyton's divorced mother (Jennifer Jones). Shortly afterward, The Idol explodes with the kind of gut-clutching Greek passion that seems altogether alien to the cool contemporary scene set forth in the rest of the picture...
...completed movie, its blemishes notwith-standing, emerged as an impressive artistic accomplishment and a lasting tribute to Miss White-side's 50 years of inspiring zeal and unflagging dedication. And the film is evidence that, in one place at least, the ancient Greek language, far from being dead, is not even moribund...
...spasmodic English narration was not always satisfactory. In the Agamemnon portion particularly, the narrative was simply superimposed on the dialogue, with the result that one could not understand either the Greek or the English. At other times the Greek was momentarily faded out. I think a better solution (if a narrative was necessary at all) would have been to present an English summary at the start of each play and then let the drama go right through in uninterrupted Greek...