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...Martha Graham choreographs Frontier...
...Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis were all otherwise sidelined, there was no gaping lack of good music around. In 1963--the year before the Beatles broke Stateside--the charts were filled with great records by the Drifters, the Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Motown's Miracles and Martha and the Vandellas, and celebrated Phil Spector girl groups such as the Crystals and the Ronettes...
...first thing you noticed was the face, a dead-white mask of anguish with black holes for eyes, a curt slash of red for a mouth and cheekbones as high as the sky. Even if Martha Graham had done nothing else worth mentioning in her 96 years, she might be remembered for that face. But she also made dances to go with it--harsh, angular fantasies spun out of the strange proportions of her short-legged body and the pain and loneliness of her secret heart. If Graham ever gave birth, one critic quipped, it would be to a cube...
Prior to the current capital campaign,Radcliffe was never immensely successful atfundraising because it "wasn't a priority" for thecollege, says Director of Development Martha AnnFuller...
...very thorough--she does her homework," says Martha A. Fuller, director of development for Radcliffe. "Linda's conversations about planning are not lip service....She's doing what leaders have...