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...sequence in painstaking detail--the segments solemnly labelled "Trio for 3 or 4," "Sextet for 5 or 6"--onstage it was impossible to tell them apart. A choreographer who has been criticized for eliminating dance's external structure appears to be saying, "Here's a dance full of overt structures--and look how silly...
...Cunningham choreography, but abstracted onstage from their ordinary context they appear as the organic prototypes of the motions of day-to-day living, acquiring a startling purity the more integral for its understatement. One's encounter with the choreography becomes a series of luminous recognitions; dance stripped of all overt meaning works on the viewer's mind with the power of symbol. And the large structures, wholly intent on unfolding patterns of motion and relation, resonate instead with the authority of ritual action...
Many Jews are irritated by Sadat's overt public relations campaign to win the backing of U.S. opinion. But there are those who feel Sadat has every right to make his views known, and forcefully. Says Samuel Kaplan, of Washington, D.C., a board member of the Zionist Organization of America: "From Sadat's point of view, this kind of campaign is perfectly legitimate and understandable. We've been doing it for years. There's no reason why he shouldn...
...Sandino, a Nicaraguan Military commander who fought for the ouster of U.S. Marines from the country in the 1930s. But in recent weeks and months, scores of businessmen, "legal" political groups, journalists, and of course the overwhelming mass of poor Nicaraguans have joined forces with the Sandinistas in an overt attempt to topple the again dictator...
...performance footage intercut with this material is rather perfunctorily and inelegantly shot. One suspects that Soviet authorities, not wanting the world audience to get the impression that the kids are a sweated artistic proletariat, forced the documentarians to avoid any overt suggestion that there might be more pain, narrowness of intellectual focus and disappointment in the children's lives than is shown in this overly sweet film. It is assuredly a harmless way to pass a rainy weekend afternoon with one's own kids, though the commercially made and fictional The Turning Point, for all its melo drama...