Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of Harvard's endowment would be lost and what would be left to invest in, if Harvard withdrew support from any of the 6,000 banks and companies doing business with South Africa...
...erect phallus. Don't laugh--that's the intention. The board clearly conveys the perils of Antony's passion; the longer it gets, the more wobbly and precarious the position--man at his tallest and most triumphantly masculine, may in a second topple into the waves and be lost forever. All we miss is the Esther Williams schtick; what we get is Antony and Cleopatra shouting at each other from across the pool, their passions mingling in the sea-air, their bodies metaphorically pulled under by the whimsical undertow of Fortune; Cleopatra viciously dunking the poor schlemiel who swims...
...Paradise Lost was not just any new opera; it came as highly touted as a Cecil B. DeMille spectacular. The libretto was written by Playwright Christopher Fry (The Lady's Not for Burning). Chicago Lyric spent well over half a million dollars on the production, a near record. The musical forces were mighty: a Wagnerian orchestra of 96, a chorus of 100. The preparation was elaborate. Choral rehearsals began in April; the orchestra practiced an unprecedented 110 hours...
...seen to that with his usual elan. No, what one wonders is whether after living off its own history for so long, satirizing and parodying the beloved forms of the movies' far-receded golden age, Hollywood can persuade audiences to come out again to share a laugh at lost innocence...
Dance photographs freeze in two dimensions the movement that flows in three. Much is lost in the process, and no amount of trickery can make up for it. In Dancers Dancing (Abrams; unpaginated; $9.95), Photographer Herbert Migdoll makes some inventive attempts at simulating the spectacle of live performances through the use of montage, solarization and time lapse. The resulting pictures are never less than colorful, but they seem to compete with their human subjects rather than record them. Yet photography in the right hands can bring something to dance as well, and Migdoll is at his best when he gives...