Word: iconoclasms
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From this mixture of Old World outlook and New World recruits arose the quality that most distinguishes the ABT today: a meaningful eclecticism. From the start, the great European classics were produced with a breezy American iconoclasm that seemed to thumb its nose at "ballet" in favor of "theatre." That spirit bubbled to a boil in April 1944, when Robbins performed in his own Fancy Free, the first American dance classic to achieve wide popularity. The company has never been dominated by a single choreographer-as is George Balanchine's New York City Ballet-or a single choreographic outlook...
...dream all began with the vision of innocent sharing of places at the medieval wooden Advocate table and at the seminar table of Lowell's Tuesday Chosen. Began of winter evenings reading aloud, of long intense discussions of tradition and iconoclasm, of who's breaking into print and why, of our own ambitions and crippling incapacities, of our competition and heroes and of what must be done...
...iconoclasm, Alice hews to a couple of basic rules for her cookery. For one: "You have to have one really big pot, something you can boil macaroni and rice in, cook corn-on-cob in, wash your hair in, wash your dog in. Get one that's big enough so that a mop will fit." For another: "Wine and liquor are great for cooking, and also for the cook. In fact, more important for the cook than for the cooking." Thus armed, pot and potted, Alice's disciples are advised merely to improvise and advertise. "If you tell...
PORTLAND, ORE., OCT. 10--Age and iconoclasm may be catching up with Wayne Morse in his battle against a young, businesslike state Representative named Robert Packwood...
...dead mules on the piano symbolize sex, and ants symbolize masturbation.) Exploited sometimes as Bunuel's creation or more accurately as Dali's, Chien Andalou exhibits the most youthful characteristics in both. Dali's frantic desire to shock the bourgeoisie (viz. the eyeslicing) works with Bunuel's iconoclasm (the Christ-parody). In 1929, Bunuel derided the "imbeciles" who looked for beauty in this "despairing, passionate call to murder"; but from an aesthetic as well as a historical perspective, it's still worth seeing...