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...score for Raymonda, Cortège is an elegant, plotless exercise in classic Marinsky style that would have delighted an audience of imperial grand dukes. One corps was dressed in shimmering white tights, tunics and tutus; another corps was costumed and booted in a fairy-tale fantasy of Hungarian peasant dress...
...January peace agreement signaled their shift in tactics. The liberation forces hoped that with the renunciation of force called for in the agreement, the repressive atmosphere in which the Thieu regime thrived would disappear. The urbanized peasants, no longer fearful of American bombing raids in the countryside, would eagerly return to their ancestral lands. The NLF could return to its time-honored goals of answering peasant needs with land reform and participatory local government. Thieu's urban social base would erode, adding continually to NLF support...
Once he had decided to endure, to go to Vietnam, there was no let up in challenges to his moral courage. O'Brien wrote of a soldier throwing a carton of milk at the head of an ancient, blind Vietnamese peasant. When asked now about his own actions, he is troubled. "I sort of wrote myself out of that scene. I just stood there and watched it happen," he says. "Looking back, I should have done something...
...Indian court art, whether Muslim or Hindu, was permeated by a meticulously apportioned lavishness. Adjectives tend to buckle under its splendors. One chubby royal playboy, Jagat Singh II of Mewar, spent ?250,000 - at a time when a field peasant might hope to earn seven shillings a year - building and embellishing pavilions on the islands of his private lake, be fore he died at the tender age of 18 in 1752. Because miniature painting was the court art par excellence, a distillate of countless man-hours for people with infinite leisure, it provides a spyhole to the detail of this...
...edge of the horizon like suns, or, piled on each other, suggest a mound of bureaucratic rubbish, while pedestrians and lean dogs pass by. Automobile stamps mix with crocodile stamps in the wide space of squares or freeways; a dozen painters with easels pursue a dozen renderings of a peasant couple taken from a painting by Millet...