Word: lar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people in 44 states. Its members draw from the nation's best: the New York City Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the American Ballet Theater, and others. On Friday night the program will feature "Tom Dula," a bluegrass folk ballad, "Allegro Brillante," choreographed by George Balanchine, and "Valley," choreographed by Lar Lubovitch. On Saturday night works of Michael Uthoff (the Hartford Ballet's artistic director), including his evocative interpretation of the "Prodigal Son," will be presented...
...bank, announced that he would look into setting up an Islamic banking structure in which no interest would be charged on loans. Most hotels and restaurants began to conform with a prohibition on alcoholic beverages. X-rated films disappeared from cinemas, and television programs like The Six Million Dol lar Man will no longer be broadcast. A mutton shortage loomed as a result of the Ayatullah's ban on meat imported from Australia and New Zealand. Because the importers could not prove that the sheep had been slaughtered according to Muslim standards, he declared the meat to be "unclean...
...UNTIL curtain call on the second night, when choreographer Lar Lubovitch jumped forward to acknowledge the applause of his own company, did I realize who he was: that one dancer who'd kept so much to himself in the background. Lubovitch isn't a star. Unlike Martha Graham, for instance, his presence as a performer doesn't constitute the driving force of his work. Yet his presence as maker of the dance is much in evidence onstage. Not that he puts choreographic structure itself on show; his forms are too well-crafted to be immediately visible. Rather...
Just another facet of our alienation: We aren't reg'lar niggers; we goes to Harvard University. And when I get out of graduate school 33 years from now, I'll have enough cash never to see poverty, racism, unemployment, discrimination. Money is the key, man, you gots to get the cash money...
...such as the acceleration of gravity are not constant but continually changing. Then there are pulsars, the collapsed cadavers of giant stars that give off extraordinary pulses of radiation, and kindred black holes, which are totally invisible but act like cosmic vacuum cleaners in sweeping up any stray stel lar material in their vicinity. Where does this material go? England's Roger Penrose and Robert Hjellming of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have dared to suggest that it might surface elsewhere, perhaps in an entirely different universe...