Word: romeos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decades, Robbins commuted easily, prodigiously, between the ballet and Broadway. One form fed the other. In 1943 he danced in Anthony Tudor's Romeo and Juliet; six years later, he devised his own Romeo and Juliet ballet, The Guests; in 1957 he reworked the theme for West Side Story and, the next year he adapted that show's street rhythms in his ballet N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz. His creativity and vigor seemed inexhaustible: 20 musicals and 19 ballets in 20 years. Even Robbins is impressed. "When I started doing this show," he says, "I looked at what I did then...
Borden has no bidders now, but last year's food-industry takeovers worried its managers. Chairman Romeo Ventres, who dreamed up the strategy in a sauna, said it might make raiders "think twice." But bidders might be less interested in Borden's bosses than in its brand names (Cracker Jack, Wise potato chips). And Elsie the cow, who appears on Borden's milk cartons, would certainly not stray...
Healy has performed in many prestigious roles including Clara in the New York City Ballet's "The Nutcracker Suite," and Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet." Healy, a Princeton undergraduate, also began dancing as the principal dancer in London Festival Ballet at only age 15. There is strong connection between dancing and ice skating, Healy says...
...plot and theme; the lineup of stand-up comics at the Gas Station is odd and intriguing. One man dresses as a nun every night; another, an overweight high school history teacher, endures hissing disdain from the audience--all for the sake of his family, his students and comedy. Romeo (Mark Rydell), the self-concerned club manager, tries to prod and cajole his comics to the top. These characters are left behind as Steven and Lilah rise closer to success, and we feel their disappointment and their dogged perseverance...
Josh's class is studying Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The play, almost four centuries old, is about adolescent rebellion, a phenomenon that remains eerily constant through changing times. "Back then kids were expected to be adults when they turned 13 or so," says Josh of the play's tragic heroes, who are the same age he is. "The difference now is, kids don't have...