Word: strength
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...made a powerful visual impression, in particular the vignettes in which male members of the company moved in unison were most successful. Here Ailey created an atmosphere ringed with the electricity and power of their movements. The effect was a mesmerizing tour de force of the men's energy, strength and technical precision...
...PIECE THAT Ailey choreographed in 1971 to music by Alice Coltrane, Laura Nyre and Chuck Griffin, "Cry" was performed poignantly by Deborah Manning, but suffered from the absence of the strength of dancer Judith Jamison. Ailey created the dance "for all Black women everywhere--especially our mothers," and it moves slowly and somberly from expressions of anguish and suffering to ones of triumph, hope and energy. Although Manning executed the steps beautifully, she lacked the stage presence necessary to transmit the messages implicit in "Cry"--fear, anger and the struggle of Black women...
Haughton Murphy is the pseudonym of a fiftyish partner in a prestigious New York City law firm. The chief strength of his mystery Murder for Lunch (Simon & Schuster; 268 pages; $14.95) is its bemused glimpses of professional folkways. Murphy dryly observes how the size of the briefcase indicates an attorney's status: junior associates haul home thick wads of raw documents in bulky bags, while partners take away the distillate of that material: a few sheets in a thin leather envelope. He deftly sketches the ballets of protocol between august attorneys and rich parvenu clients, the ugly skirmishing between partners...
...hottest concerns in the Pentagon, strongly emphasized in SMP, is that the U.S. military is losing its historical edge in weapons technology. While the Soviets continue to stress their traditional strength in numbers of tanks, planes and artillery, said Weinberger, "they have more weapons of higher quality and higher capability." He noted, for example, that the Soviets have installed a U.S.-designed state-of-the-art radar, obtained through espionage, in many new fighter aircraft...
...hopes to put the document to a national plebiscite. If all goes well, a new legislature will be in place within a year. In the meantime, said Aquino, the provisional "Freedom Constitution" should allow a nation undermined by 20 years of Marcos' rule to "heal its wounds, restore its strength and enjoy the fruits of its newfound freedom...