Word: pioneers
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Bumps & Grinds. Although dated for today's audience-which Balanchine helped educate-Slaughter was a pioneer work that put ballet on Broadway permanently. With high-fidelity hauteur, Suzanne Farrell stormed tantalizingly through the bumps and grinds of the striptease girl, ably partnered by Arthur Mitchell as her jealous hoofer boy friend. The dance was all show-biz flash, far removed from the cool twelve-tone Balanchine ballets in which Farrell has frequently starred...
Memory & Myth. Modern-Dance Pioneer Martha Graham is as far removed from Bolshoi technique as the cloister is from the athletic field. Probing ever deeper into the recesses of the psyche, she is an explorer of the mental interior, reflecting on the roles of memory, meditation, myth and the male-female relationship. She successfully blended them all at the beginning of her 21-week Manhattan season in a new work called A Time of Snow, a somber retelling of the love and tragedy of Heloise and Abelard. The Graham dancers embraced the angular and knotty choreography with the familiar...
Died. Jack Harding, 71, aviation pioneer whose single-engined Douglas biplane in 1924 was one of two to complete history's first round-the-world flight; of cancer; in La Jolla, Calif. "Magellans of the air" was what they called Harding and seven other Army aviators who took off from Seattle on April 6, 1924. Only Harding's plane and one other finished the trip after buzzing 26,345 miles in 363 flight hours...
Braidwood is not only a pioneer in the study of the so-called "archaeological gap" between man's shift from hunter to farmer; he is one of the first archaeologists to go forth with whole teams of scholars-geologists, zoologists, botanists-applying a wide range of on-the-spot know-how to each dig. Since his psychedelic show has already become one of the institute's most popular displays, the public obviously digs Braidwood's brand of archaeology...
...Pioneer of the pseudo-respectable porno picture was I, a Woman, a cheap, Swedish-made study of nymphomania. It seemed destined for the grind-house circuit until Distributor Radley Metzger, a sometime actor and film editor, had the bright idea of booking it into a New York art theater. Since 1966, the film, which Metzger bought for $75,000, has grossed more than $3,000,000, and the money is still rolling...