Word: precisionism
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Working only with the body and emotions, the 32 dancers move in groups as the music reaches crescendoes and in pairs as it softens. In large numbers the effect is both exuberant and mesmerizing as dancers leap and turn and stretch back and forth with technical precision. The piece could...
The Boston Ballet has, unfortunately, made one mistake in the program. Before Carmina Burana is a disappointing 25-minute Pas de Dix choreographed by George Balanchine. Taken from a full-length ballet called Raymonda, it is supposed to highlight the elegance and precision of classical ballet--a task which, even...
Of Author Arthur Koestler little is definitely known. But he has written the most exciting novel of the season. The book begins with the clang of a cell door closing in a GPU prison. It ends with a shot in the back of the head in a murky passageway of...
Hemingway himself did little to encourage any other attitude. With The Sun Also Rises (1926), Men Without Women (1927) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), he had found himself in the unique position of being not only a best-seller but also a writer whom first-line critics intensely admired...
Molecular biology, in part, is rooted in the science of genetics. Ever since Cro-Magnon man, parents have probably wondered why their children resemble them. But not until an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel began planting peas in his monastery's garden in the mid-19th century were...