Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bolshoi's ten-month season, which normally finishes in June, is being extended through Aug. 3 this year to accommodate Olympics visitors. To the international audiences that will soon flock to the Bolshoi Theater, the company may still seem to be a marvel of Moscow, an institution that glories in lavish productions and virtuoso dancing. But to dance buffs, the current season has been lackluster, relying heavily on stock repertory and a dwindling pool of leading dancers. The most eagerly anticipated new production, Plisetskaya's The Sea Gull, which she performed to music composed by her husband, Rodion...
Indeed, the Alexander Kielland appeared to be a marvel of modern marine engineering. Built in 1976 by the Compagnie Française d'Entreprises Métalliques, based in Paris, the pentagonal 10,105-ton platform was leased and operated by Phillips Petroleum Co., the major contractor for oil and natural gas prospecting in the rich Edda field. For the rotating crews that lived there for two weeks at a time, it was intended to be a floating city-a sort of workingman's Titanic. And like the Titanic, the Alexander Kielland was theoretically invulnerable. Says Jakob...
...America has always been a species of self-discovery-and self-indulgence. The English novelist E.M. Forster said that America is like life because "you can usually find in it what you look for." A man did not even have to be there to conjure up the promise and marvel; from dark, medieval Prague, Kafka imagined his Amerika. He believed that everyone there always, invariably, was smiling...
...least marvel about this Dream is Epstein's ability to draw humor from the play even as he is interpreting it in an essentially solemn way. We expect the rustics and their "Pyramus and Thisbe" to be a comic staple, and certainly John Bottoms's eponymous, stage-struck Bottom, Jeremy Geidt's paternal, befuddled Quince, Max Wright's scallion-chomping Flute and their cohorts dig up laughs you'd only guessed at, reading the play. But the young lovers, too, keep their scenes from bogging down into indistinguishable, interchangeable laments: Sloan's strong-willed and-armed Helena gets a hapless...
Such management style, however, was the company's undoing with Polavision. While the innovation was a technical marvel, there was little market for it. Home movies have never been as popular as still photography; while nearly all homes have a still camera, only about one-quarter have movie cameras. Polavision was also expensive and the picture quality often poor. The camera and a small viewer that looks like a TV screen cost $675, plus $9.95 for a 2-min. 40-sec. film cartridge. The product never took hold despite heavy promotion. Some officials within the company opposed Polavision...