Word: nomad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first part of the ballet. Choreographer Balanchine tells the story of how the rug was woven somewhere in the desert: a swarm of ballerinas, supported by male dancers passing for nomad tribesmen, weave an elaborate cat's cradle of streamers, their movements as intricate and precise as the shuttling of a power loom. Then the story moves on to the Persian court, and the rest of the ballet is merely a "court entertainment,'' a kind of Balanchine variety show. In a swirl of color, foreign visitors to the court strut the stage dressed in everything from...
...dead calm at ground level, but above 10,000 ft., 60-m.p.h. winds caused a quick dispersal of high-altitude radioactivity. French patrols had already fanned out through the region, rounding up some 300 nomad tribesmen. Before the shot, radar screens swept land and air, watching for any movement that might indicate endangered humans. Because of the direction of the winds at the time, the French said there was little chance of fallout blowing toward inhabited areas...