Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your treatment of Bert Lance [Sept. 19] reminds me of old-style Western justice: "Hurry up with the trial so we can get on with the hanging...
Mazo does so with particular flair. Without being too gossipy, his brash, kaleidoscopic view of the NYCB's Spring 1973 season is as thorough as a documentary. Mazo captured what would never have been spoken before a camera. His style is chatty: George Balanchine, founder and ballet master of the Company and probably the world's finest choreographer, is "Mr.B.", after the fashion of the dancers; choreographer Jerome Robbins ("the resident monster") is "Jerry...
...quality of sound. Then, having learned the phonetics of his language, he must put them together to convey a message, and to do this must have a fullness in himself to express before the composer's fullness finds a response. Lastly he needs an understanding of the composer's style, a corrective to the urge to express himself rather than the music. Thus, he puts all his equipment, his skill, the raw material of his whole life at the service of another man's vision--a vision which has become his own without, at the moment of performance, the need...
...trio of freshman starters are largely responsible for this new style of play. Smith, from Leicester, England, and Andy Kronfeld sandwich sophomore Steve Yakopec at midfield, and Diaz joins three returning lettermen--Nelson, Harold Martin and Matt Bowyer--up front...
...Butterfield, The New York Times' East Asia correspondent, is well known for his penetrating analysis of events in China on the basis of such salient symbols as Chairman Hua's hair style. He outdid himself this week, though, with a story on Vietnam apparently culled from a month-old speech by that country's prime minister...