Word: lincolnitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, François Truffaut stood in the wings of Avery Fisher Hall at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, chatting with an admirer while waiting to go onstage to speak at a tribute for Alfred Hitchcock. On cue the lights went down and scenes from Hitchcock films flared onscreen. Stopping himself in, midsentence, Truffaut exclaimed, "Oh! La projection!" and turned, eyes bright, to a peephole that gave access to the magic images. The old lure was irresistible for this French movie master who was, first and forever, a child of the American cinema...
After high, school he says, maybe Shakespeare training. "I like social studies" he says, "but I don't know what you do with that. I met Henry Kissinger the other day at Lincoln Center (for the opening of Firstborn). He ws probably just making his appearance. He's friends with the producer, He's done a lot with social studies...
...hopes to commission Glass's next piece) as well as selected revivals of Broadway shows like South Pacific. "We should be looked at as an experimental company," says Sills, contrasting the City Opera's image with that of the grander Metropolitan Opera next door at Lincoln Center. "[Music Director] Jimmy Levine agrees with me that the Met should be like the Metropolitan Museum, and we should be like the Museum of Modern Art." -By Michael Walsh
...pioneer American ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher who had been director or co-director of the San Francisco Ballet since 1952; of a heart attack; in Burlingame, Calif. He started his career in the 1930s as America's first major male star, dancing for George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein in a precursor of today's New York City Ballet. Creator of such popular, diverse works as Filling Station and Con Amore, Christensen, with his dancing brothers Harold and Willam, helped to build the quality of ballet in the western...
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