Word: isadora
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...savage half-century, "out of date with his time." Findley's Mauberley rushes to catch up with his century. Cowering in a crumbling Alpine hotel that has seen grander times and better people, he writes a graffiti testament in rooms once occupied by the likes of Isadora Duncan and Somerset Maugham. He has barely finished when someone stabs him. The body and the writing are found by American soldiers, liberators of the death camps. Captain Freyberg, a fanatical Nazi-hunter who ironically places the Dachau gate sign, ARBEIT MACHT FREI (Work shall set you free), over his desk, checks...
...college, working in a slag mill, brushing up (almost fatally) against old American wealth, articulating his fellow Slavs' ardor for their adopted country. All three boys have Georgia (Jodi Thelen) on their minds-a willfully free-spirited girl, naive and narcissistic, who thinks herself the avatar of Isadora Duncan and lopes through the '60s in search of a style. Four Friends proceeds in the same manner. As one character forlornly notes: "The excess of all this is a little staggering...
...MacMillan, 51. On this trip the Royal brought three works new to U.S. audiences: Ashton's Rhapsody, a glittering display originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov; MacMillan's Gloria, a dark ode to the generation killed in the Great War, set to the bright strains of Poulenc; and Isadora, also by MacMillan, a tasteless, breast-baring melodrama about Modern Dance Pioneer Isadora Duncan, with a pastiche score by Richard Rodney Bennett. In addition, the Royal performed, for the first time in New York City, MacMillan's La Fin du Jour, a febrile evocation of the vanished world...
What is the purpose here? This seems to be dumpy, old Isadora Wing, dressed in pantaloons and a corset, belting out "I Am Woman" in Olde English...
...DIFFERENCE, though. While Isadora had justifiably noble intentions--that is, she at least had a sense of where she wanted to end up and thus consciously fought sexual victimization--Fanny merely goes along for the ride. Unlike her mundane prototype, this red-haired beauty doesn't really dig sexual freedom. On about page 250, we begin to lose track of the number of times Fanny has allowed herself to be raped, humiliated, used, and tortured. Not that our heroine doesn't get turned on once or twice; in fact, one message Jong seems to want to convey is that...