Word: strutting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intricate and precise as the shuttling of a power loom. Then the story moves on to the Persian court, and the rest of the ballet is merely a "court entertainment,'' a kind of Balanchine variety show. In a swirl of color, foreign visitors to the court strut the stage dressed in everything from the gaudily feathered headdress of West Indians to the pink and gold garb of Eastern potentates. Highlights of the evening: a fluently elegant pas de deux between Jacques d'Amboise and Melissa Hayden, and a rousing Scottish number whose stately classical movements were abruptly...
...landing his aircraft and sank a merchantman from a torpedo boat. To the end he remained the most bellicose of belligerents, complaining only "of the stench of peace." Rant & Rave. The peace left Italy with little to show for its half million dead. Beginning with nothing but bluff, strut and 287 men. D'Annunzio made his famed "march" (by -truck much of the way) on Fiume. which Woodrow Wilson thought should belong to one of his creations-Yugoslavia. Eventually D'Annunzio was driven out of the city by Italian naval fire, but not before he had lived...