Word: shrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...succeeds to the point of knowing at the end that she doesn't really need the marriage at all. She is alone in her growth; the others stagnate or deteriorate. Jerry, unable to make his move out of Eden, dreams of proposing to Sally; Sally degenerates into a shrew; and Richard is doomed to perpetual unhappiness, neurotically in love with a woman who despises...
...Mack was leading the Radcliffe sailing team to its eighth straight Sloop Shrew Trophy last Sunday afternoon on the Charles, when she and her teammates came down with a case of McClelland's Syndrome...
This weekend both teams stay on the Charles as Radcliffe defends the Sloop Shrew Trophy for the eighth consecutive year, and MIT hosts the New England Single-Handed Championships...
...pity that A.B.T. did not give this extraordinary galaxy of talents something more interesting to do. Milwaukee-born Neumeier, 33, was a disciple of John Cranko, the late artistic director of the Stuttgart Ballet. Cranko's tender Romeo and Juliet and rollicking The Taming of the Shrew showed that good ballets can be based on Shakespeare's plays. Hamlet Connotations proves that choreographers can make bad ones as well. Set to a trio of astringent pieces by Aaron Copland, Neumeier's stripped-down, expressionistic dance is simplistically Oedipal: Mother Gertrude seems as much in love with...
John Cranko, founder of the Stuttgart Ballet in 1961, molded it into a company of world rank with his ballets on great classical themes: Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The Taming of the Shrew. Cranko's traditional style stressed drama and athleticism. Ballet audiences were therefore stunned when, after Cranko's sudden death in 1973, American Choreographer Glen Tetley was appointed his successor. An iconoclast of the dance, Tetley, 49, raises conservative eyebrows high with his infusion of modern dance idioms into ballet. Again, unlike Cranko, he has always been known for relatively small dance pieces that concentrate...