Word: mountainous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Brazilians too have started cultivating the leaf, in the form of an adaptable strain of the plant known as epadu. Previously, narcotics experts had been confident that coca could be grown only on open mountain slopes; epadu, however, thrives in the jungle. "The bottom line," said Democratic Congressman Dante B. Fascell of Florida, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, "is that, despite encouraging developments, particularly in Colombia, the (drug) war is being lost...
Once on the ground, Levin ran from the villa, which was high on a mountain in Lebanon. As he scrambled downhill in the dark, wearing only pajamas, a sweater and socks, he could hear what "must have been a hundred dogs barking all the way down the mountain. My heart was in my mouth." Levin hiked for two hours before reaching a main highway. There he heard "a dog and human voices. I thought my kidnapers were at my heels, so I hid under a truck. But when I saw it was Syrian soldiers, I gave myself...
...expect to see dancers in the American Ballet Theater stride jauntily onstage carrying ordinary metal folding chairs and proceed to use them as partners? But that is what they do in Choreographer and Performance Artist David Gordon's clever new work--his first ballet ever --called Field, Chair and Mountain, and audiences on A.B.T.'s current national tour cheer them on at every performance. In a New York City Ballet premiere last week, Jerome Robbins created a sort of Day-Glo urban paradise in which dancers seemed to cavort almost weightlessly to the celestial scritterings and screakings of Steve Reich...
Both ballets are casual, debonair and refreshingly free of pretension. Gordon, whose own Pick Up Co. uses dialogue as well as tapes and movement in performance, manages to shift smoothly into the more formal vocabulary of classical ballet. Field, Chair and Mountain is set to a noisy concerto by the 19th century Irish piano virtuoso John Field (thus the Field in the title). In commissioning the piece, Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov asked only that Gordon use a set, and Gordon came up with an inventive one. Executed with cheeky wit by Santo Loquasto, it unfolds from left to right like...
Mostly, Field, Chair and Mountain is a mesmerizing exploration of partnering. In the first section, ten couples float and bob repeatedly across the stage in supported leaps and lifts. Later, similar moves are made with or on the chairs. Sometimes the mood is lyrical, sometimes genially matter-of-fact or mocking. At one point, inevitably, there is a crisply paced round of musical chairs. It is Gordon's achievement that he unites his whole flurry of inspiration with a skewed but satisfying logic...