Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Choreographer George Balanchine conceived his ballet, the Prodigal Son, as a poem of bitter passions, a lantern carried into the darkness to light an anguished face. Balanchine responded to Prokofiev's music by composing a gymnastic grotesquerie, free of all the gestures of classical ballet. The only dancer to perform the title role since Prodigal Son was revived by Balanchine's New York City Ballet four years ago has been Edward Villella, whose athletic command of the part was soon being praised as a great dance portrayal. Last week, to open the new season, Prodigal Son was danced...
...double-breasted dark grey suit, removed an already filled-in ballot. He handed it to the board president, who solemnly announced, "His Excellency Francisco Franco Bahamonde, profession-Chief of State, married and with residence in the Palace of El Pardo, votes," and dropped the folded paper in a lantern-shaped glass ballot box. It was the first time that Dictator Franco had cast a ballot since the Civil War began...
...BLUE LANTERN, by Colette. Written when she was crippled by arthritis and dying, this is an unsentimental record of how it was with a poet of the senses whose senses were failing...
...BLUE LANTERN, by Colette. The great French novelist's last major work, written when she was crippled by arthritis, is an unsentimental record of how it was with a poet of the senses whose senses were failing...
Joyful Cry. As in her best books-Colette's bedside world in The Blue Lantern seems paradoxically always in motion, and she ends her remarkable book with a characteristic yes to her dwindling life: "I am still going to write; for me there is no other destiny. But when does writing have an end? What is the warning sign? A trembling of the hand? I used to think that with the completed book you raise the joyful cry 'Finished!' You clap your hands, only to find pouring from them grains of sand you believed to be precious...