Word: pillar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might wonder, then, how liberals forced such a pillar of political integrity from office. Shakespeare helps to explain this phenomenon, Agnew contends. On his way to the courthouse where he would plead nolo contendere, Agnew dissected As You Like It with his Secret Service detail. "We began to talk about...the truth of the lines, 'All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.'" And so, an hour later when he stood before a judge and agreed not to contest a felony charge, "inside me another voice said, 'It's only a play, only...
...adultery of the soul that claimed most of their spare time." In this arrangement of the Cantabrigian quartet, Bryan Forbes, the English actor, director (The L-Shaped Room) and novelist, homes in onTheo Gittings, who bears a passing resemblance to Blunt. Theo, a brilliant, alienated invert who becomes a pillar of the literary establishment, is compared by critics to E.M. Forster (a fellow homosexual who issued the closet cri de coeur: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country"). Theo's career...
...Against a deeply shadowed backdrop, Chase seemed to appear in her old roles: actually dancers were costumed as the young girl who dances the prelude in Les Sylphides, the greedy virgin in Three Virgins and a Devil, the doll in Petrouchka, the Columbine in Carnaval, the eldest sister in Pillar of Fire, the stepmother in Fall River Legend, Juno in The Judgment of Paris, the fourth song in Dark Elegies, Queen Clementine in Bluebeard and the regal imperious Mother to such Princes in Swan Lake as Rudolf Nureyev and Anthony Dowell...
A.B.T. also encouraged innovation. In the '40s Jerome Robbins capered through Fancy Free, De Mille created Three Virgins and Fall River Legend, and Antony Tudor made dance dramas like Pillar of Fire. More recently A.B.T. has performed works by Eliot Feld and Glen Tetley and reaped a huge hit in Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove. Chase has nurtured Americans like Cynthia Gregory and welcomed the Soviet comets, Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov. The newest arrival, Alexander Godunov, hurled himself through the rousing pas de deux from Le Corsaire as a highlight of the gala...
...Guthrie with a psychological profile of the killer and some cryptic notes he has left in the safe of her boutique. The author polishes plots and plans until they shine. Guthrie follows the assassin's trail to Zurich. There he learns that Grand Slam is controlled by a pillar of the Swiss banking establishmenta Soviet spy for 40 years. Surprise follows revelation, and it detracts nothing from the novel to note that Sadat survives the savage denouement at the Zurich clinic. In case of real medical emergency, the Egyptian President might be better advised...