Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Balanchine has drained ballet of all its theatricalism and has left us with a series of impersonal ballet exercises and pseudo-acrobatic routines danced by equally impersonal technicians. Nowhere in your article does Mr. Balanchine or your writer give any hope for the sadly lacking male segment of the company...
...Symphony. Her role as Queen of the Amazons in Midsummer Night's Dream was type casting; she is the tallest (5 ft. 7½ in.) girl in the troupe. Thick-legged and saucer-eyed, she is a steady, remarkably effortless performer whose spectacular leaps put some of the male dancers to shame. "Gloria is beautiful and strong like a Clydesdale horse!" says Balanchine. "Her leg extension spans light-years...
...beauty in La Valse to the man-eating insect in The Cage, are unmatched by any dancer her age. Petite (5 ft. 3 in.), she relies more on speed, beauty of line and polished precision than strength. She frequently tours independently in tandem with the company's acrobatic male virtuoso, Edward Villella...
Killed by the Nonexistent. There is an inflexible rule that in a novel about Spain the death of any male character over the age of five must be made to parallel the ritual of the bullfight, and a reader assumes that Celestino's four pains are merely Montherlant's notion of a heart attack. Not so. The police come, flip poor Celestino over, and discover "four thin clean holes which might have been made by a knife or sword." Has Celestino been murdered in some highly symbolic fashion? Apparently not; nor is there any hint that the supernatural...
...make up a novel about the waterfront slums of Brooklyn. In this book all the ordinary four-letter words are for the little children, while grownups employ a more esoteric vocabulary where drag means transvestite clothing, silks are women's underpants worn by men, a John is a male prostitute's male customer, and rough-trade is that same prostitute's brutal boy friend...