Word: mother
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contrast, "The Tree of Life" uses nothing but metaphoric gesture: expressive intent informs each movement. The work is simply structured One group of dancers works as a unit into which three characters--"the shaman," "the first horse," and "the mother"--emerge and recede. The section motifs, derived from imporivsation directed by guest choreographer Aileen Passloff, are simple as well: huddling in a mass, journeying in a chain of linked arms, imitating birds and horses and animal-demons. Yet the logic of how one section plays off against the next is puzzling. What sort of beings are these--ancient creatures, spirits...
During the four or five years of the first World War, however, the Weils moved about often, following Simone's father to the various outposts where the French Army stationed him. There Simone's mother devoted herself to nursing her physician husband and his comrades. So one could argue (Petrement certainly seems to) that from observing her mother's altruism, the germ of self-sacrifice was planted early in this otherwise normal, gifted child...
...brain as one watches the aging Henry II of The Lion in Winter try to hold together the tenuous union of twelfth century fiefdoms he had built. But with one son unable to understand why a house must be undivided and with the other wickedly conspiring with his mother to usurp all, King Henry doesn't have much of a chance from the start. By staging the production in late March, the Leverett House drama society is only readapting an adaptation, known better as the movie version with Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn as Eleanore of Acquitaine, the independent...
...second Ex slot will be filled by the first English production of the Austrian play, The President. Written in 1971 by Thomas Bernhard and translated by director Gizelle Faulkenberg's mother, the play is about the assassination of a dictator and the breakdown of human relationships. Traditional Austrian themes of decadence done a la Beckett...
...family moved--despite their displacement from the upper-class Greek community to a state of near-impoverishment. The book is to a certain extent a biography of the entire family, for Cavafy (who never married, although he may have had heterosexual affairs in early manhood), lived with his mother until her death, and was in frequent contact with his six brothers--whose fortunes Liddell follows almost as assiduously as he does the poet's. And, while Cavafy was not entirely representative of his time, place and background, his story gives an indication of the life of Egypt's ingrown expatriate...