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...object of this scorn walks into his trailer, where I'm waiting to put a magnifying glass on him, and says, "Hey, what's up?" in a slight Midwestern drawl. Gordon grew up in California, but his parents moved him to Indiana at 14 because he'd been racing midget cars since he was a five-year-old, and there was more action in Indiana...
...Wheeldon's crowd-pleasing yet intelligently crafted ballets. This summer he'll be making his first dance for the San Francisco Ballet and his second, a new version of Stravinsky's Firebird, for the Boston Ballet, as well as working on a dance-themed film by Nicholas Hytner (The Object of My Affection). "If a company calls and I have the time," he says cheerily, "I'll do it." There's just one catch: if they want somebody trendy, they'll have to call somebody else. "Ballet has to move forward, yes, but it doesn't have to lose...
...considered really and truly outside the Canon seems not to have dawned on those inside the Museum of Modern Art.) His strategy, according to MOMA, is to subvert "the elitist mythologies of artistic creation and production." And so forth. Such claims are counters in a solemn Laputan game whose object is to ratify the countercultural status of a given artist and thereby justify his (or her) prompt entry into the cultural pantheon...
...relation between an object's distance and the speed at which it is receding is represented by what astronomers call the Hubble constant. Discovery of the constant would lead to an estimate of the age of the universe...
...complete their research, the team focused on the principle that an object...