Word: hatful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This dance, like "The Leaves are Fading," has not plot. Its central them is a satire of classical dance. The prelude opened with the three leads tossing around a derby hat, alternation jazz and ballet, relaxed and tense positions, humorous and serious approaches to the ballet. The entire dance continued with this anti-traditional attitude and always seemed to have a surprise in store for the audience. In fact, three-quarters of the time, the audience either was laughing or snickering. Danilo Radojevic was superb in his characterization of the male lead. He acted and danced, poked fun and tried...
...resort and fishing village on the eastern end of Long Island. All along, his life was like a badly made play; none of the people or places quite seemed to fit the man, any more than did the costume he sometimes affected: black cape, cane and broad-brimmed hat...
...times were fascinated by Sardis. According to legend, the city was founded by sons of Heracles after the Trojan War. In the Iliad, Homer writes of the city "beneath the snowy Tmolus in the rich land of Hyde." The poet Sappho laments that she cannot obtain the colorful Lydian hat of Sardis for her daughter Cleis. The historian Herodoturs relates that when Cyrus the Great captured Sardis for the Persians after a siege in 547 B.C., he ordered that the vanquished Croesus be burned alive on a funeral pyre. (Croesus survived when Apollo intervened by sending a rain shower...
DIED. Slim Pickens, 64, grizzled actor with a gulch-wide twang who played second-banana Hollywood cowpokes in westerns including One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and Blazing Saddles (1974), but whose indelible screen moment was his cowboy-hat-waving, yeehah-ing ride on a nuclear bomb dropped on the Russkies in Dr. Strangelove (1964); of lingering complications after the 1982 removal of a brain tumor; in Modesto, Calif. Born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., he changed his name in the 1930s when he became a rodeo clown and bronco buster, explaining his new moniker "was a natural, considerin' that in those...
...wish we could offer our hearty congrats To barrier-breaker young William M. Batts. But mum's the good word, we can't talk about that, One's taught to keep stuff like that under one's hat. Instead, we'll keep matters decorous and clean By buying Greg Lyss a new Xerox machine To run off his thousands of letters pristine While still saving money for Council and Dean...