Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion of adapting the material for ballet performers is not new. Robbins was approached by American Ballet Theatre some 20 years ago, but because he was ballet master at the rival City Ballet, he first went to its guru, George Balanchine, for his approval. "Fine," he said, "because our boys don't fight." The idea never came to fruition, but Balanchine's remark was telling. Ballet dancers are trained to do what they are told. Their acting is mostly pantomime. Here they faced something new. "Broadway dancers are expected to take risks," says Robert LaFosse, who stars in West Side...
Journey to the west, which had its world premiere early this month at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, induces a pair of sensations. First it occurs to you that what you're watching is children's theater. Then you realize how impoverished our notion of adult theater is if we would cede these splendors to children, for this is a play constructed from the rich rudiments of dramatic art -dreams, mime, burlesque, magic...
...adminstration's concept of diversity not only grows out of a distorted notion of individual difference, but also relies on an oversimplified model of social interaciton. For there is no such thing as diversity without community; it is community that provides the foundation of individual identity...
Apparently Landry was one of "a group of men and women who thought that there was such a thing as evil in the world [really?}, and that this evil was extending its dark tendrils even within Harvard Yard." Homosexuality? No. Actually Landry refers to the notion that objective truth doesn't exist...
...fact, it's a dispute over bonuses that caused the recent walkout. Salomon's principal owner, Warren Buffett, dared to break with tradition and challenge the pay system, the way baseball owners have. Being a no-nonsense businessman from the Midwest and also a team player, Buffett introduced the notion that since Salomon was a business as well as a team, the players shouldn't expect bonuses if the team screwed up. This did not go over well in the clubhouse...