Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues listed above are probably the most crucial long-term problem facing the United States. To many of us, the problems as well as the available solutions are obvious. It was with this in mind that so many of us got excited when the Southern populist with a heart full of media-manipulated goodwill ran for the presidency. We elected him not because of his experience, but because of our faith and optimism in this possibly trustworthy...
...younger choreographers, most nourished in Cunningham's own company: Paul Taylor, Judith Dunn, Deborah Hay, Jack Moore, Dan Wagoner, Yvonne Rainer. In a century when painting has turned inward to explore the grounds of perception, and the "meaning" of poetry has become the relation of word to word and mind to language, Cunningham has created dance centered on nothing more than the activity of movement--and in so doing, in McDonagh's words, he "clearly demonstrated that dance was not a frustrated mate yearning to verbalization but a kinetic discipline capable of its own wordless truths...
What's worth wet feet? Consider the price of a play this weekend: waterlogged Wallabies, slush-flooded socks, or klunking around in cast-iron boots so clumsy you wouldn't consider putting them on your pet cow. If you had a pet cow. Never mind escapism, or entertainment, or culture, or any of the other reasons the parts of you from the ankles up may have used to justify play-going in the past. The relevant fact this week is feet. Anything that's going to require a journey on the T. or extra slogging through the Cambridge glop...
What you will see is bodily grace, harmonious proportions and a quintet of hoopsters from Harvard who embody the ideal aims of athletics--recreation, enjoyment and the Classical conception of a sound mind in a sound body...
...conscience and body without a past: Travis Bickle, a taxi driver and ultimate nobody. Robert DeNiro gapes and mumbles into this challenging role, and somehow (DeNiro really astounds me at times) manages to convince us that not only his past but his entire identity has indeed slipped his mind...