Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...string of Broadway hits that includes the dances for On the Town, West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof. Yet his first love has always been ballet, and during a career stretching back to 1944, he has created such modern classics as the footloose Fancy Free, the silent Moves and a brilliant gloss on Afternoon of a Faun. Last week at Lincoln Center, in a meeting of two kindred spirits, Robbins came face to face with Gershwin's biggest, most problematic instrumental work, unveiling The Gershwin Concerto, based on the Concerto...
DIED. Hope Hampton, 84, silent-film actress whose penchant for sequins, diamonds and publicity made her a fixture of café society long after her career had faded; of a heart attack; in New York City. A devotee of luxury, Hampton once said, "A woman can get by being dumb and beautiful...
...friends--quickly pasted and cardboarded stereotypes--are simply four losers who keep ending up on each other's doorsteps like stray cats. Danelo (Craig Wasson). The son of Yugoslay immigrants toys with writing poetry and playing the clarinet; Tom (Jim Metzler) provides the he-man silent type, meaning he has only a half-dozen lines; David (Michael Huddleston) is the chubby, balding Jewish son of an undertaker who inherits the business; and Georgia (Jodi Thelen), a vivacious, lusty young debauchka who drives all three boys to be forever singing "Georgia in My Mind." Georgia is supposed to be dynamic...
...locker room where last year at this time the Harvard hockey team had grins 10 goals wide, where only one week form now a glowing Tommy Murray would quietly sit, a Pot on his lap and his teammates yelling and laughing around him, the Harvard hockey team sat silent...
...reform, Michael Dukakis also remains silent. Beyond proposing 40 per cent of state growth revenues go to local aid, he hasn't said much. But his silence, at least, makes more sense than Ed King'a mythical surpluses...