Word: interpretations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indestructible central character. A choreographer of genius, Mr. B. had a marvelous, ample personality. He was riveting to watch, hilarious to listen to. Like a god, he never explained. Instead, he demonstrated, and a dancer had to have the technique as well as the intuition and sensitivity to interpret. His spoken comments were usually odd, elliptical little puns, analogies or fables, often involving animals or food. Thus the Balanchine you got was the Balanchine you were able to assimilate for yourself. In a narrative, such a person is foolproof, or rather, writer-proof...
...course, not only the director, but also the set designer, the lightning designer the musical coordinator, and especially the actors make crucial artistic decisions in the course of a production. Under the director's guidance, actors are constantly interpreting the text, expanding and making human the character sketched on the page. If actors interpret badly, they are criticized and perhaps ridiculed, but not banned from the stage. The same should be true of directors...
...democratic socialism propounded by his grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru and perpetuated by his mother. But while providing a sense of national stability, he offered the prospect of a modern new face for his country. "If it's a landslide," he said not long before the election, "we would have to interpret that as a mandate for change." Buoyed by his victory, the businesslike Gandhi is expected to set about his ambitious goal of liberating India from the corruption and strong-willed central rule associated with his mother's reign and ushering in a new era of efficiency and high technology...
...Laxalt, Reagan's closest friend on Capitol Hill, warned the President once again that the proposed savings would be insufficient. Reagan replied that since arms-control negotiations with the Soviets may be about to resume, this would be a most inappropriate time to send Moscow anything it might interpret as a signal of U.S. softness. Weinberger made essentially the same point in public the next day. Said he: "You can't decide what you're going to have to spend for defense without looking outside the United States." The military forces, he added, still have "a long...
...theatrical community was all prepared to take the stand to defend the rights of directors and producers to freely interpret a playwright's work. But fans of massive. First Amendment bloodfests were disappointed when Beckett's agents settled out-of-court for little more than a statement in the "Endgame" program...