Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role of Tancredi, danced by Nureyev, was conceived as the only flesh-and-blood character on stage; the rest of the roles were grim and ghostly reflections of his troubled personality. To achieve a fittingly "queasy-uneasy" setting for the journey into the subconscious, Australian Set Designer Barry Kay studied various plants under a microscope, then conjured a shadowy, organic world streaked with veins like a bloodshot eyeball. Into this membranous setting, Tancredi is symbolically born, wobbling to life to face his first crisis. It comes in the form of two female images representing sacred and profane love. Torn between...
...idea is still in the discussion stage, and a timetable for construction hasn't even been contemplated. With Harvard's large fund-raising commitments--the new Program for Harvard Science seeks $49 million and the University's total needs probably exceed $150 million--it may be five or ten years before anyone even considers the project seriously...
...have been that easy, but who cares? The annual 5100-a-ticket benefit party for the New York Shake speare Festival is usually Dullsville. Last week's affair was anything but - a fact that was signaled in advance by the peekaboo, fold-out invitations created by Stage Designer Rouben Ter-Aru-tunian, replacing the universally ordi nary engraved white cards. The rea son was that Amanda-darling, daughter of Mrs. William S. Paley, and Susan, bright offspring of MCA Founder Jules Stein, got a couple of dozen beautiful young people to show up at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel...
...weeks, behind a continuing barrage of public name-calling, the U.S.'s two warring pro-football leagues had been quietly negotiating a peace. Last week came the announcement: the National and American leagues had agreed to 1) kiss and make up, 2) hold a common player draft, 3) stage an annual "world-championship" play-off game starting next winter, and 4) merge in 1970 into a single, 28-team league...
...than of state, it has featured little in history, and since 1963, has been closed even as a museum. The reason was not government indifference. Charles de Gaulle and his Minister of Culture, Andre Malraux, had quietly decided between them that it was time for the Grand Trianon to stage a royal comeback, this time as a museum and guest house where De Gaulle could feast and confer with visiting heads of state...