Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the movie is grounded in muddled mythology; the scriptwriter seems to get Hercules mixed up with Samson, the Amazons with the ladies of Lemnos. But no matter. Few Amazons ever looked better, especially in a scene filmed against the background of an obviously modern cemetery, where one of the big, tough gals explains that this is where visiting men are buried "when we kill them after the mating season." The good guys fight the bad; Hercules topples pillars on horses and men, breaks iron chains as if they were Zippers and routs an army singlehanded. "If this picture...
Although Britain's Royal Ballet is much better known to the public, the 33-year-old Rambert company is more revered by balletomanes as the most important modern breeding ground of British choreographers and dancers. At Jacob's Pillow, the company presented one contemporary work, Kenneth MacMillan's Laiderette, plus a full-length Giselle, long a specialty of the house. Neither as grand in its effects nor as fiery in its execution as the Royal Ballet, the Rambert version demonstrated a warmly intimate style that emphasized reality instead of fantasy, dramatic clarity instead of pyrotechnics...
Wilted Poppies. Encolpius opens the book with a scabrous philippic against "modern" education, sounding a little like Bernard Shaw denouncing formal schooling. But Encolpius tires of this theme and soon becomes involved with his two comrades-in-arms in a sale of stolen goods. Later, the two older men quarrel, and Encolpius suggests they divide their belongings and separate. Ascyltus agrees-and draws his sword, threatening to divide the boy Giton. The most sustained satire of the volume describes a lavish dinner at the mansion of Trimalchio, wealthy and flatulent onetime slave. He presents each outrageous new dish-a roast...
Then why in heaven's name must every nagging prude of Cato's ilk cry shame, denounce my work as lewd, damning with a look my guileless, simple art, this simple, modern book...
...Archibald MacLeish's Job in modern dress and stress...