Word: rustics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American musical, dance has sketched a profile of the U.S., both geographically and psychologically. There has been the rustic rondelay, a handholding, earth-stamping ritual testifying to the vernal purity of the prairie. There has been the subway serenade-urban jostle, excitement and speed. Always there has been the brassy audacity of a nation that flung railroads like dice across the breadth of a vast continent...
...this magnitude do not intrude on people's lives as moral choices. Therefore, it is foolish to hold people morally accountable for their actions. Lucien's collaboration springs from the peculiarities of his personality and situation, particularities of his personality and situation, particularly his brutality familial resentments and rustic simplicity; given the opportunity, he would just as easily have joined the resistance. Two other recent films continue this dialogue on the occupation. Michel Mitrani's Black Thursday (Les Gutchets du Louvre) and Michel Drach's Les Violons du Bal. Focusing their attention on the deportation of French Jewry, these directors...
...sanitorium itself is a welfare state Magic Mountain, set in Alpine grandeur that enables De Sica to display the saccharine cinematography that made his Garden of the Finzi Contins such a visually attractive but intellectually vapid film Snow capped mountains, exquisitely dressed women, luxurious but tasteful architecture and rustic charm proclaim heavyhandedly that we have entered another world totally alien to Clara's seedy three room tenement and grimy factory. Here Clara has everything she has been denied all her life, a room of her own, time to herself, wealthy girlfriends to lavish clothes on her and teach...
...Ballet, Modern Dancer-Choreographer Louis Falco and members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Nureyev has programmed an ambitious mix of diverse styles ranging from demi-pointe to barefoot. Not the least of the challenges are the rapid-fire transformations from Balanchine's neoclassical Apollo to the romantic rustic in Bournonville's pas de deux from the Flower Festival in Genzano and, eventually, into the crazed moor of Limon's The Moor's Pavane...
...that all the land stretching out from the area where we stood once belonged to a member of the Cuban national bourgeoisie. Along with other revolutionaries, Raul had seized this area, set up schools and gardens for the peasantry and maintained his headquarters. We walked into a small and rustic room which had served as Raul's military office. The museum still housed the original furniture which Raul had used. Several unfinished letters covered his desk. His battle jacket hung on his chair. Because the museum had been kept up, I felt as if we were back...