Word: posts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America is the most eclectic country in the world," he says. He carried his quest for variety into his choice of outside choreographers: two of them -- Paul Taylor and Lar Lubovitch -- are modernists who shun pointe work. Although she has choreographed some ballet, Laura Dean is a modernist -- or post-modernist. Martins' decision is controversial; N.Y.C.B. dancers can dance decently barefoot, but why not display them in what they do best? There are some much noted omissions from the roster, including such innovators as Twyla Tharp and Mark Morris, who have put the vocabulary of classical dance to new uses...
...dusty, unpaved road outside the Lajitas Trading Post is not exactly the best surface for shuffling through a slow waltz or high-stepping to the beat of La Bamba. But when the crush of couples on the polished concrete floor of the store's veranda became too great on a recent Friday night, a score or more of folks took to dancing in the street anyway. Scuffed cowboy boots and battered sneakers kicked up dust and occasionally sent crushed aluminum beer / cans skittering across the gravel surface. The excited yelps of dancers wafted off into the desert toward arid mountain...
Home is Mexico, the reason why the single-story trading post was built here, on high ground a respectful 200 yards from the Rio Grande in the Big Bend National Park area of Texas, sometime around the turn of the century. The border is still the major reason for the trading post's existence. There are no U.S. or Mexican customs and immigration stations within 50 miles, and tradition has allowed for free movement across the border. "Occasionally the border patrol will cruise by," remarks Christine Gutierrez, who works at the trading post but lives across the river. "They seldom...
...study group leaders will include William F. Weld '66, the former assistant attorney general who resigned from his post last March apparently in disapproval of his boss. Attorney General Edwin Meese III. Weld has told The Crimson he will discuss in his group white-collar crime and the relation of law enforcement to public policy...
...Princeton professor late last month accepted a post in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, ending a four-year search to fill the empty chair, faculty members said yesterday...