Word: kisses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history of ballet. It had its start when the two Russian émigrés were brought together in 1925 by the great Impresario Serge Diaghilev. It continued for four decades, during which Balanchine and Stravinsky created two dozen ballets from the romantic Tchaikovsky-esque The Fairy's Kiss to the stark, quasi-dodecaphonic "IBM-ballet," Agon...
...Kiss. The opening night's Violin Concerto turned out to be Balanchine's finest work since his 1967 Jewels. Stravinsky's music is less assertive, less obviously heroic than most violin concertos. Instead, it offers a rich conversation with the soloist as a sort of Socratic anchorman. Balanchine's two principal dancing couples follow this dialogue, and sometimes invoke the unexpected by concentrating on minor or secondary themes. All to the point of producing a ballet that is mod, sexy and elegant-vintage Balanchine...
...devout hypochondriac. He ate oatmeal nearly every day of his life; he hated casual human contact and touching doorknobs. One of his many mistresses recalls that when she once innocently tasted his soup in a restaurant, Kaufman promptly ordered another bowl. When she asked him how he could kiss her, Kaufman replied, "Well, Miss S., your tasting my soup was one kind of risk. My kissing you was another. Let's concentrate on the second...
...families on television, the mother was a pretty high school graduate and never thought of not feeding her kids meals. The mothers of television always smiled at their kids and kissed their foreheads. My mother was not like that. My mother did not kiss me. She would not say "hello" to me after I came into the house from school...
About 75 people marched to University Hall to present the petitions to Dean Dunlop. The group formed a small picket line outside University Hall, and marched for about 20 minutes chanting "Kiss off, Kissinger," while representatives of the Committee presented the petition at Dunlop's office...