Word: les
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prediction smacks of the ivory tower. American artists have always felt more isolated than they really were. Though it has not always understood them, the U.S. middle class has in fact lionized its writers. As for American painters and sculptors, it is now impossible for them to épater les bourgeois. Today the bourgeoisie vie with each other for possession of the most avant-garde gesture. Given this tradition, Warren's fear that creators will suddenly be ostracized seems unduly somber...
Died. James Robertson Justice, 70, doughty, spade-bearded Scottish actor; following a series of strokes; in King's Somborne, England. Gruff-voiced and massive (270 lbs.), Justice appeared in more than 40 films, among them Moby Dick, Les Misérables and The Guns of Navarone. He was best known as the irascible surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt in the British Doctor comedy series of the 1950s...
...million Americans, one of the most anticipated pieces of mail every month is the sturdy brown envelope bearing a Social Security check. But mailing the money creates problems. About 35,000 checks a year get stolen. And the amount of clerical work is overwhelming. Says Treasury Official Les Plumly: "We have to print them, stuff them, seal them and mail them. If we don't find some other way, the sheer volume will sink the system...
Other skaters off to rookie camps include Ted Thorndike, who will be going to the Philadelphia Flyers camp. Dave Gautier, who will be traveling to Les Habients, and Ed Rossi, who has his sights on hitting both the Maple Leafs' camp and the U.S. Olympic camp. Winger Jim McMahon is on the L.A. Kings' negotiation list but is presently leaning toward the Olympic tryouts...
...nostalgic love for the fairy-tale side of romantic Imperial ballet. That fondness has produced masterpieces - The Nutcracker, for example - but it can also lead to muddled fables like L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (The Boy and the Sorceries). Described as a "lyric fantasy" and based on a story by Colette, L'Enfant is as much an operetta as a ballet. It requires a chorus, a quintet of singing narrators and a boy soprano. He plays a naughty child who escapes from his studies into a fantasy world of cavorting armchairs, dancing teapots, and a veritable...