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...painting; in fact its visual aesthetics of brightly colored unitards and swiftly moving figures were reminiscent of “The Dance” by Henri Matisse.“Night Journey” was a powerful example of Martha Graham’s choreography, with brisk, sharp motion propelled from the very core and breath of the dancers. Regretfully, the two-minute excerpt was too brief to be fulfilling as it seemed to preclude the full arc of the choreography.In the heavily promoted tribute to Bob Fosse entitled “Inspiration: Fosse,” the most inspiring...
...middle and get over,” Walsh said. “[But Haviland] had earned it to be out there.”The sequence preserved the shutout win for Haviland, a victim of poor run support in losing his two previous times out. He was especially sharp on Saturday, scattering five hits over seven innings, striking out five and walking only one. “It helps that Coach Walsh has a lot of confidence in me,” Haviland said. “He’s going to give me a shot to work...
...long standoff between Nepal's king and the street protestors demanding an end to his control over the government took a sharp turn for the worse today, after Nepal's political parties rejected the King's offer for peace - and the police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse thousands of protestors...
...suit that had been tailored to a skintight fit by a girdle manufacturer. Minutes later, Crossfield strapped himself into the cramped cockpit of a needle-nosed, stub-winged plane that was locked into place beneath the right wing of an Air Force B-52 bomber. At 8 o'clock sharp the B-52 roared down the runway and lifted. It carried with it Scott Crossfield in the X-15 rocket-plane ? designed to be the first U.S. aircraft to carry man out to the edge of space...
...tropical storms, including four Category 5 hurricanes, that developed in the Atlantic in 2005. “If you add up all these numbers, you get big trouble,” Browner said. She went on to excoriate those who question the science supporting global warming, directing sharp criticism at author Michael Crichton ’64 whose book, “State of Fear,” argues that the scientific evidence for climate change is thin. Browner said that many people who deny climate change are using Crichton, who has no formal scientific training, as their...