Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what dancing there is! Just as there is grand opera, there is also grand ballet-unfettered by logic, celebrating showmanship and dazzle for their own sake. There were a few opening-night technical mishaps, but Nureyev's Raymonda is so studded with spectacular solos, pas de deux, pas de trois, pas de quatres, stylistic evocations of folk dance and rousing ensemble displays that it is rather like a 19-course meal devised by an overeager master chef. There are almost too many delights to absorb. One of them, certainly, is a revitalized Erik Bruhn, who brings to the secondary...
Alvarez's lesser characterizations range from the empty to the offensive. Sam's mother, making a brief appearance for the sake of color, is Jewish; her first four lines...
...Regard not those killed for the sake of Allah as dead, for they are alive beside him, resplendent in his favor and rejoicing . . ." With those words in homage to the late King Faisal, Radio Riyadh thus ended its announcement that Prince Faisal ibn Musaed, the 26-year-old member of the Saudi Arabian royal family who murdered his uncle, King Faisal, last March 25 (TIME, April 7), had himself been put to death...
...diminish. Meanwhile, his latest analysis suggests no way out of the box. But he has previously voiced hope that a united front of oil importers could convince OPEC that it is not even in the cartel's own long-run best interest to bankrupt its customers for the sake of earning high revenues that the oil countries cannot profitably...
...shaggy-dog story. Most of them should be read as experiments rather than as polished pieces of comic ingenuity. One essay, for example, "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists," imagines that Vincent Van Gogh is a dentist obsessed with bridgework and X rays as art for art's sake...