Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PROBLEM of a ballet such as Sleeping Beauty is not to make the audience believe the fantasy, but to make us not mind that we don't believe it. The dancing doesn't have to carry it alone--after all, this pull-out-all-the-stops Imperial Russian classic, complete with Tchaikovsky score and choreography by the legendary Marius Petipa, is nothing if not an occasion for bravura theatrical spectacle. The dance comes like expensive chocolates wrapped in gold foil: we're supposed to enjoy the package almost as much as the contents...
Apart from the weather, spring is a state of mind, one that expresses itself in rituals of celebration. The beach at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for example, is once again a jungle of young bodies celebrating each other's youth and strewing the sands with beer cans. At New York's Radio City Music Hall, temporarily rescued from destruction by being designated a city landmark, the legendary Rockettes observed Easter by wearing bunny ears, and crowds lined up for what was announced as the last show in the 45-year-old art deco theater. In New Orleans, this...
...peace agreement we shall have to bear in mind the security problems of Israel. I had the dubious pleasure the morning of May 13, 1948, of having a Jordanian column trying to cut the country in half. I wouldn't like that to happen again. When President Sadat, in Ismailia, got a little annoyed with me and said, "Ezer, if this doesn't go through, I'll have you chased all over the world." I replied, "Please, Mr. President, the first time I started chasing you was 20 kilometers south of Tel Aviv...
...final visitor was Premier Raymond Barre, who presented his resignation-a mere formality. At week's end Giscard reappointed Barre, confident that the Premier's austerity programs were the essential measures needed to hold back inflation. Austerity was not exactly what the leftist leaders had in mind, but then, Mitterrand, Marchais and the others know that Giscard's engagement at the Palace runs to 1981, while theirs were only one-day stands...
Last year John Jerome became a counterculture hero with the publication of Truck, an earthy account of his yearlong effort to rehabilitate a 1950 Dodge pickup. Now he turns his restive mind to loftier topics. On Mountains wittily bypasses the customary because-it-is-there rationale to examine the fascination and terror of peaks and promontories...