Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhythmically and spatially, like commuters crisscrossing in a train depot, his dancers move independently of one another. The effect is often riveting. Summerspace evokes moods and memories of sunshiny days by the sea; How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run, danced to the accompaniment of Composer John Cage sitting onstage, smoking, drinking champagne and reading aloud from his memoirs, is zany, true, and touching all at once...
...they also have some things in common. Both have lusted for the presidency for eight years. Both have been pronounced politically dead, Nixon after signing his own burial order at his bitter 1962 press conference ("You won't have Nixon to kick around any more"), Rockefeller after being divorced from a middle-aged wife and marrying a divorcee-and raising state taxes to boot. Both have reemerged, old pros in a youth-happy age, miraculously well-preserved politically in the formaldehyde of ambition and determination...
...provides a touchstone by rerunning the movie classics; and Bonnie and Clyde is mandatory in all extracurricular undergraduate courses. But as is often the case with trends, artists have been well in the vanguard of popular taste, and some of the most gifted have been on a '30s kick for years (see color opposite...
...body, one would expect a reasonable amount of flexibility, freedom, and opportunity for independence at Harvard. Administrators are quick to point out that there is a minimum of rules, and that almost any regulation can be broken for the right person. If a person is willing to scream and kick enough, he can get almost anything...
...even as psychodrama-or as pacifist propaganda. A Maoist girl (Glenda Jackson) quotes endlessly from the Chairman: "A revolution is an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." Then she avows, with straight face: "I believe in China's violent revolution, but I couldn't kick a nun." Sick jokes abound: "Saigon is the only city in the world where garbage stands on street corners and they burn people." And symbolism: one scene shows the cast floundering in the mud of the Thames estuary-supposedly signifying the U.S. bogged down in Viet...