Word: imp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months, and to note what impressions remain the same, leaving imprints of the artist's style. This weekend at MIT local choreographer Beth Soll presented "Map," and as in "Clearfield," her piece performed earlier this spring, she was cavorting off to the side of the action like some imperious imp. But a performing persona is only one aspect of style; more interesting to see is how Soll's choreography transcends this way of moving...
Bertolt Brecht was an imp of ambiguity. He was an atheist; yet he admitted that Luther's German translation of the Bible was the greatest single influence on his work. He was antiheroic; yet in Mother Courage he created one of the most arresting heroines in 20th century drama. As a Communist, he proselytized for the poor, but he was as tightfisted as the socialist Bernard Shaw when it came to his own money. And this coolheaded didact of "epic"theater and "alienation" effects was a sentimental idolater of Charlie Chaplin movies...
...prolific output of technical and popular philosophy, social criticism and history, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and England's Order of Merit. Such respectability made the inveterate outsider in Russell uneasy. Occasionally, those bestowing the honors were uncomfortable too. As he was decorating the philosopher imp with the Order of Merit, King George euphemistically remarked...
...something to be jubilant about. The stars are the kind you see in the skies−Patrice Munsel, Cyril Ritchard, Tammy Grimes, Larry Kurt, John Raitt, Dick Shawn and Lillian Gish. The three ladies stand out: Munsel with her silver-tongued lyric soprano; Grimes, who is a mischievous imp of the stage; and the in destructible Gish, who at 80 is still a darling little girl and a valiant trouper...
...inflation and recession that have added to the company's woes. Chrysler also has many troubles of its own. Since it came to Britain in 1964, it has introduced only one genuinely new car, the rather ordinary five-passenger Avenger sedan; its two other models-the Volkswagen-like Imp and the Hunter-were developed by Rootes Motors Ltd., the company that Chrysler bought. Accordingly, Chrysler's share of the British auto market has dropped from a high of 12% in 1967 to less than 7% this year. Since January, Chrysler has laid off 4,000 employees...