Word: plum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growers, the Teamsters Union and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. The proposal that Carter supported would have permitted union organizers to campaign on growers' property and would have mandated secret elections for union representation. Shidan griped that he has had to pull up seven acres of plum trees because, at $2.75 per hr. for a migrant worker's labor, he could not afford to harvest them. "The politicians should stay...
...wrangling in Japan's modern history. In fact the L.D.P. emerged so battered that Fukuda last week vowed to "rebuild the party from scratch, and [I] will stake my political life on accomplishing it." The leader of the L.D.P's largest faction, whose intellect had won him plum jobs in the Ministry of Finance before he turned to politics in 1952, has probably done exactly that. But as a man with a reputation for tenacity as well as ambition, Fukuda, a longtime power broker in the party, has always felt that "a day is bound to come when...
...keen instinct for his craft, Baryshnikov has devised solutions that infuse his Nutcracker with logic as well as magic. There is the traditional Christmas tree that grows onstage, a puppet show and a pretty pink and white sleigh to transport Clara and her prince. But there is no Sugar Plum Fairy and the cast is entirely adult. Clara, danced by Marianna Tcherkassky, hovers somewhere between child and woman. Her godfather Drosselmeyer, brilliantly portrayed by Alexander Minz, is both fatherly and aboil with suppressed eroticism. Baryshnikov accents mystery and the paradox of the light and dark faces of the human soul...
...life, defends its young mistress, Marie, against an army of huge mice, then turns into a young prince. A white bed, moving under its own power, transports Marie through a wintry forest and into the Land of Sweets. There she and the prince are entertained by the Sugar Plum Fairy before they fly off in a reindeer-drawn coach to eternal happiness...
...call it The Dance of the Cornflakes' because we've got corns on our feet from dancing it so often." There are few major dancers or choreographers whose careers have not crossed that of Herr Drosselmeyer, Marie (or Clara, as she is sometimes known) or the Sugar Plum Fairy. Dame Margot Fonteyn made her debut at Sadler's Wells in 1934 as a snowflake. Both Rudolf Nureyev and Baryshnikov danced the prince as young men in Leningrad, as did Balanchine himself some 60 years...