Word: minueting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present condition of frenzied agitation." Two Half Moons, or The Disturbed Camel, sets against the night sky a haloed camel being worshipped by three Arabs who look rather like melting vanilla cones. Guardians of the Primal, which the Baltimore Museum bought, shows a bird-faced man doing a minuet with a man-faced bird; between them on a string stretches a fanged serpent. Toledano says he was trying to show "the seeds of life and the forces which protect it," using human, bird and animal parts to create "a synthesis of life." In Parallel, Toledano's intent is clearer...
...exchange of ambassadors between modern nations is usually as prescribed as a minuet. Last week, after it had gone through the diplomatic formalities of clearing a new ambassador with the Argentine government, the U.S. State Department pulled a switch as startling as a fast buck & wing. It announced that Ambassador Albert F. Nufer would remain in Argentina. Ambassador Willard Beaulac, scheduled to move to Argentina from Cuba, will go to Chile instead...
...MINUET IN G −read one of the placards −GOEBBELS, GOERING, GIESEKING
...clown is not really in love with the girl nor she with him, although she tries to be, out of gratitude. Her heart's desire is a young composer (played by Chaplin's 26-year-old son Sydney). Since the leading characters are only dancing a minuet, they can hardly reduce a stouthearted audience to sobs...
...Eglevsky, Robbins and Magallanes) joined them in a fluid, swiftly changing pattern. In the second movement, "Theme and Variations," Balanchine exploited Tallchief's precision, Diana Adams' elegant lyricism, Melissa Hayden's athletic excellence. The "Minuet" interlude for the corps de ballet was dainty, but with too much energy and verve to be precious. The Finale, with the full company on stage, sent the critics racing hot-eyed for their typewriters...