Word: romping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOST people, us included, would rather watch lesbians romp across the screen than homosexuals. (That is, if forced to the choice.) That should point toward a number of features in the fabric of the collective American sexual unconscious. Is there less potential for exploiting men's bodies than women's bodies? Are female bodies aesthetically more interesting (arresting, arousing, subtle) than male bodies, or has male dominion fixed that as a conditioned response? Is Warhol putting us on, or-in some insane, frenetic, and stupendous way-is he really on to something basic about the ways in which we look...
...Crimson has been playing well and winning all season, but yesterday Park got a chance to really enjoy a game as 16 different players contributed to an 11-2 romp over Tufts...
From the wonderful people who gave Broadway Story Theatre comes Ovid's Metamorphoses. If the current show seems a trifle less exhilarating than Story Theatre, it may be that Director Paul Sills' way with a fable is not applicable to every author. A childlike romp through the Grimm Brothers' goose-pimply fun house is distinctly different from a childlike romp through aphrodisiacal Jovian glades and bedrooms. It de-eroticizes Ovid. He has been altered, as one says of a cat. Ovid was a great worldly poet and wit. Arnold Weinstein, who freely adapted the Metamorphoses...
...three, Hoist The Flag has run twice. He beat the best horses in Maryland by 15 lengths. Then he beat the best horses in America by seven lengths eased up. Hoist The Flag will run two more times in New York before heading for Kentucky. He should romp both times...
...help his company along, Arthur Mitchell was forced to turn choreographer; almost by accident he has thus established himself as the most promising dance creator to emerge from the Balanchine ranks in recent years. Fete Noire, based on a Shostakovitch score, is a neoclassic Russian romp set in some imaginary imperial salon. At once crisp and buoyant, it demonstrates how well Mitchell has grasped the real secret of Balanchine's genius-the mastery of the logic and geometry of bodies in motion. By contrast, Mitchell's Rhythmetron is a throbbing, stylized Afro-Latin tribal ritual...