Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fever Swamp," with music by Peter Gordon and choreography by Bill T. Jones, followed "Isba" A short, intense work created for the male members of the Ailey Company. "Fever Swamp," celebrated their strength, robust ensemble work, technique and expression. Seemingly light-hearted, it mirrored Peter Gordon's sharp staccato "Intervallic Expressions." The music's surface--slick, square and seemingly native--veiled an inner surface ripe with irregularities and good-humored ironies...
...closely divided convention, the Jackson bloc could become the target of a bidding war between candidates unable to amass the 1,967 votes needed for the nomination. But it is also possible that Mondale-less likely, Hart-could come into the convention with enough strength to win the prize no matter how the Jackson delegates voted. Even in such a case, though Jackson's bargaining power would be reduced, it would be far from eliminated. For the eventual nominee, the difference between defeat and victory in November's balloting could hinge on whether Jackson gave him a half...
...possible; he is incapable of giving up his erotic friendships, though he is afraid of hurting Tereza. During the political unrest of 1968, Tomas and Tereza move to Switzerland; they are followed by Sabina, Tomas's next-best mistress. Some time later Tereza, deciding that she lacks the strength to live abroad, returns to Czechoslovakia, from which now there is no chance of returning. Tomas follows her back...
...than before, attracts a student mistress whom he loves in Sabina's stead. He dies in Cambodia, on a trip for intellectuals who want to protest the treatment Cambodia has received. Confronted with muggers who demand his money, Franz chooses to fight them, remembering that Sabina admired his physical strength; he dies from the injuries they inflict. Franz is betrayed by his love and idealism; Tomas is overcome by Tereza's weakness...
...condition of love, indeed, that the lightness of experience becomes most comic and most acute; Kundera's meditation on the problems of love are very fine. Sabina, looking at Franz's physically powerful frame, grows angry at Franz's refusal to use his strength outwardly in directing others' lives. He is too weak, she thinks, at the same time knowing that a strong man would be at least as offensive; she decides, in a terrible access of honesty, that it is love itself she cannot stomach. A more unsettling predicament is the failure even of dedicated lovers to achieve real...