Word: poses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down on your knees and scrubbing, this world of voices seems to lie a great distance above your head. You feel like a little child again, as a child takes for granted that there are bigger people always above her. . . . My muscles are working while they chatter, while they pose, disarranging their lives, striving perpetually to get things straight, yet merely disarranging matters more; while I, I am the person who is constantly straightening things out, keeping life fit to live...
Jerome Robbins' Pas de Trois, a posturing satire on classical ballet done to Berlioz' thundering Damnation of Faust. In it two men and a ballerina maneuver to upstage each other; one mugs shamelessly, another surreptitiously corrects a pose, or looks bewildered and terrified when he can't remember what he is expected to do next. Good clean fun, and skillfully done, it is also a symptom of ballet's present introversion. Pas de Trois was postponed twice because of Ballerina Alicia Markova's illness, was finally put on without her. Critics found her substitute, veteran...
...Edouard came back from the funeral dry-eyed. "Get into your pose," he told his mother. "We mustn't forget Maitre Bonnard told me to work always, and there's still a bit of light...
...basis of past performance, the match should pose no problem for the musketeers, but Peroy makes no promises for this or any future contest. Captain manager Don Van Roosen is more optimistic, however, and foresees "a lot of good trips" on the rest of the schedule...
Milton A. Smith, assistant General Counsel of the Chamber, said portal suits "pose a threat of bankruptcy to concerns which are the backbone of the American economic system...