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Enter, Indeterminancy. A man in sneakers and grey-flannel slacks walked over to the balloons and started popping them with a pin. A contralto in a sickly green satin cocktail suit began singing St. Louis Blues. A dancer in a black leotard skipped rope while the pianist slammed the keyboard with his elbows. "Five!" cried Cage, his arm descending like the second hand of a clock. Sneakers hit the piano strings with a dead fish. Black Leotard read a newspaper while marking time to the wail of the trombone by flipping a garbage can lid with her foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anarchy With a Beat | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...tiger ("His loins," says the program, "are heavy with solitude"), an arm-flapping eagle, a scared rat ("His heart is full of holes, like a cheese"). In a later scene he encountered assorted characters, including Romeo and Venus, who stepped from a giant pearl shell in a flesh-colored leotard. At one point he joined Death in a game of cards, with Eurydice's midriff serving as table. The deafening last scene found Orpheus hanging by his heels from the flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: And Now, Concrete Ballet | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Manhattan salon, headquarters of her three-continent chain. A woman who wants to spend an entire day at the salon can spend up to $120 for a series of treatments that would make a siren out of a Westchester matron. First, she is told to change into a black leotard, given paper slippers and a white robe to wear. Her medical history is solemnly taken ("Any operations? How many children?"). After doing exercises in front of a mirror under direction of a Ph.D. from Vienna ($12), she hops into a 3O-minute bubble bath with froth 3 ft. high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Pink Jungle | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...sets by Painter Bernard Buffet, and choreographed (by Americans John Taras and Don Lurio) for the most part like a Broadway musical. Visually (and for the box office), its handsomest parts belong to a splendidly configured blonde named Noelle Adam in a seductress role that fits her like a leotard. Best dancer in the company proved to be a regular of the Royal Danish Ballet named Toni Lander, who managed as the wife to make her final-act love scene with the dying hero far more evocative than blonde Dancer Adam's more celebrated writhings on a banister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sexe Is a Four-Letter Word | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze may soon pass into history with the flagpole sitter and the Human Fly. Trapeze is an attempt by Producer-Actor Burt Lancaster-who got his start in show business as an acrobat-to give the sons of the leotard what may prove to be their last fling in the big time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 11, 1956 | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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